Strand Theatre
Broad Street,
Winder,
GA
30680
Broad Street,
Winder,
GA
30680
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The Strand Theatre was opened in 1916. At some time unknown it was given a Streamline Moderne style façade. It was still open in 1950.
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DENNIS WHITEFIELD
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Here is an item from Boxoffice magazine, May 1950:
John Harvard, manager of the Strand, Winder GA, got a cost-free ballyhoo and plenty of publicity on behalf of “Song of India”. He obtained two elephants from Athens where a circus was quartered and used them on the street with banners. The stunt was paid for by local merchants and squared with theater advertising.
Does anyone know what the project name and/or type used when this theater was in operation? It would be a nice piece to place in our museum!
The Barrow Preservation Society’s book Around Winder says that the Strand Theatre was opened in 1916. I’ve found the Strand mentioned in trade journals as early as 1923, and an item in the March 4, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World notes plans for a new theater in Winder in a two story building 30x100 feet, to be built by J. L. Saul and operated by L. Love. The item doesn’t give a theater name, but it must have been the Strand.
Another book, Barrow County: Photographs from the Stell-Kilgore Collection, by Myles Godfrey, features a photo of the Strand with a caption that says it was located where the addition to the courthouse is now. The courthouse addition is on the west side of N. Broad Street in the block south of Athens Street (Google Books preview.)
I’ve been unable to discover when the Strand got its moderne front, or when it closed. So far I’ve found no trade journal references to it later than the one from May 1950, cited in an earlier comment by kencmcintyre.