Victory Theatre
617 5th Street,
Sioux City,
IA
51101
617 5th Street,
Sioux City,
IA
51101
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I believe this reopened as Rialto again on August 1st, 1925.
Its final name change, Victory took place on December 3rd, 1941. Ad posted.
Victory theatre reopening 02 Dec 1941, Tue The Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa) Newspapers.com
Soo theatre closed for renovations and enlargements.
Soo theatre enlargement 06 Jul 1924, Sun The Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa) Newspapers.com
Renamed Soo on May 21st, 1922, as another Rialto theatre opens. Another ad posted.
Reopened as Rialto on July 10th, 1921. Another ad with picture posted.
Reopened as Rivoli on October 17th, 1920. Ad posted.
This opened on October 1st, 1906, as Lyric, September 18th, 1907, as Orpheum and April 14th, 1918, as Gayety. Grand opening ads posted.
I am currently part of the Sioux City Community Theatre (SCCT). After It left ‘Victory’ it went to Acre Shores Ballroom and that is where it lies still to this day. Acre Shores Ballroom has another story. SCCT had many locations throughout it’s career. You can visit their website: www.scctheatre.org. Also on their facebook page is an old picture of Victory Theatre. (Sioux City Community Theatre).
This house was called the Victory Theatre at least as early as 1943, when it was mentioned in the December 25 issue of The Billboard.
According to the text near the bottom of this webpage, the Sioux City Community Theatre staged its productions at the Victory but this apparently ceased in 1965 or thereabouts. It is not clear if it was still operating at least part-time as a cinema when the community theater group was active there, but the reason that the community theatre group had to vacate may have been because the theater was already had been sold or slated for demolition prior to 1969.
That picture referred to by Chuck is dated at least 1946, the release date of the film “Wake Up and Dream” listed on the marquee.
A photo montage of Sioux City Theatres unearthed by CSWalczak shows a house called the Rialto at bottom left which is a perfect match for the Victory Theatre building seen in the photo Chuck linked to. They have to be the same theater.
The montage comes from this page, which has extracts from a book published in 1923. It says that the Rialto opened in 1907 as the Lyric Theatre and soon after became the Orpheum. When Sioux City’s second Orpheum opened in 1919, the first Orpheum became the Rialto.
The Orpheum is mentioned multiple times in The Billboard in 1908, so it wasn’t the Lyric for very long. Chuck’s photo shows that the Rialto was renamed the Victory by 1940. I don’t know whether or not there were other names in between.