Strand Theatre
Main Street,
Johnstown,
NY
12095
Main Street,
Johnstown,
NY
12095
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Previous Names: Electric Theatre
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The Calderwood brothers owned this small movie theatre. Built in the early part of the Twentieth century. It was on Main Street. The children used to call it “the nickel dump”. Later renamed Strand Theatre, it was closed and demolished by the early-1950’s.
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I was told by a octogenarian that when he was small, he remembered a unisex bathroon. Not that many people in Johnstown,NY remember this movie house now.
Clarence Dopp also owned the “Nickel Dump”. Clarence’s wife Dorothy nee Jenner was a first cousin of my grandmother. Clarence and Dorothy’s daughter Nancy is still alive. I’ll check with her to see if she can add any more info on the theater. My father also remembers the theater.
Any photos of this theatre?
There was also “Smalley’s Theater”. Photo in historian Lewis Decker’s book “Johnstown”: https://books.google.com/books?id=D22iNDKpFd8C&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22nickel+dump%22+johnstown&source=bl&ots=7kQ9XsaN4z&sig=tAqhIVQsTuS4nqTT_IIJGQzuJ2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHyMzPvN_XAhVP0WMKHZeaCecQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=%22nickel%20dump%22%20johnstown&f=false
Newspaper stories on the Electric Theater can be found at: http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html Search “Electric Theater” Johnstown
Apparently it was renamed the Strand Theater at some point.
Above search will return: a 1931 request by Clarence Dopp to show movies on Sunday. Also 1967 obituary of D. Harlow Calderwood saying he and his brother, W. Harold Calderwood, bought it in 1911 and sold it to Clarence Dopp. I remember a Mr. Calderwood doing magic tricks at the Johnstown Historical Society when I was in Johnstown in 1970 for my great grandfather Lucien Julien’s funeral. (I was ten years old.) There’s also a 1937 article about Dopp and Jenner building a new theater in Frankfort, adding to those they already owned in Johnstown, Poland, and Northville.