Dodge Theatre
1018 Central Avenue,
Fort Dodge,
IA
50501
1018 Central Avenue,
Fort Dodge,
IA
50501
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Added the ghost. Can’t read all of it, and there was something else to the right that had been painted over.
Turns out I do have a picture of a ghost ad for the theater.
The November, 1925 issue of a magazine called The Community Builder, published by the Fort Dodge Chamber of Commerce, said that on May 31 that year the Majestic had been purchased by the A. H. Blank Company of Des Moines. The same company bought Fort Dodge’s Rialto Theatre on October 15.
The NRHP listing for this calls it the Carter Building/Majestic Theatre. Says it was built in 1913, but it appears on the Dec. 1912 Sanborn.
Bad dates on this one. The building was constructed between 1907 and 1912, and had a theater on the west side of the ground floor from the very beginning. It’s a three-story apartment building, quite deep. Attractive and in decent shape, but I didn’t take a picture for some reason. Current occupant of the theater space is a comic book store.
Here is an October 1949 ad from the Fort Dodge Messenger:
http://tinyurl.com/m5yccu