Lee Theatre
105 E. 1st Street,
Dixon,
IL
61021
105 E. 1st Street,
Dixon,
IL
61021
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Not demolished, but mutilated by a bad remodel. If it was ever a sporting goods store, that was gone by 2007, when it was vacant. Most recent streetview shows a furniture/lighting store. Best to just say retail.
Opened in the Fall of 1936 and closure as a regular movie house was July 3, 1963 after a final showing of “The Adventures of the Brothers Grimm.” The Lee-Dix Theatre Circuit which operated the Dixon Theater said the theater – which had no functioning air conditioning system at that time – would reopen in the Fall when cooler weather came. Though that didn’t transpire, the Lee was used for special events and organ recitals into 1964. Osco Drugs announced a deal in summer of 1964 to take over the Lee Building and converted the former Lee to a retail pharmacy.
Here is a March 1946 ad from the Dixon Evening Telegraph:
http://tinyurl.com/ya5teq6