Grand Theatre
141 W. Broadway Street,
Sparta,
IL
62286
141 W. Broadway Street,
Sparta,
IL
62286
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The Grand Theatre was opened by September, 1918. It was destroyed by fire in 1951. The Sparta Theatre (which has its own page on Cinema Treasures) was built on the site.
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Bryan Krefft
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The Sparta Theatre page says that that house opened in 1951 on the site of the Grand Theatre, which had burned down. The Grand was mentioned in the 1942 edition of the International Motion Picture Almanac.
A Grand Theatre in Sparta, Illinois, is listed in the September 7, 1918, issue of The Moving Picture World.
Also, although our Sparta Theatre page says that that house occupied the former site of the Grand, we give its address as 142 Broadway while we give the Grand’s address as 141 Broadway. Were they really on the same site, or were they across the street from each other? If they were on the same site, which is the correct address?
The February 4, 1950 issue of Boxoffice said that the Grand Theatre had shown movies on Sunday for the first time on January 29. Citizens of Sparta had recently voted to repeal a Sunday blue law which had been in effect for 122 years.