Uptown Theatre
215 W. Adams Street,
Creston,
IA
50801
215 W. Adams Street,
Creston,
IA
50801
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The Montgomery Ward store in the photo is the building that was the Comet, before it and the building to the right of it were ruined by a dull remodel.
This may have opened earlier. The 1913 map shows a movie theater in the prior building at 215. This was a two story wooden storefront, fairly large, which was constructed sometime before 1886. The 1907 map shows a barber there. By 1923, that building had been replaced by a brick building, two stories, which served as the entrance and lobby to a much larger theater with the auditorium on N Elm St. The whole complex today is used as retail.
1941 image added via Raymond Storey. Uptown marquee on the left.