Sage Theatre
245 S. Bridge Street,
Winnemucca,
NV
89445
245 S. Bridge Street,
Winnemucca,
NV
89445
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June 2019 street view shows the property boarded up posted No Trespassing and for sale.
1920s & `39 photos as the American Theatre added via the Building in the Past Facebook page.
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From the 1920s a photo postcard view of Bridge Street along with the American Theatre and from the 1940s a photo postcard of the Sage Theatre in Winnemucca.
Sage Theatre was owned by Westland Theatres located at 291 Golden Gate, San Francisco. H.V.Rotus Harvey was the President. Hannah Oppie was the booker in 1956.
Wow. That’s a great postcard, ken mc…a golden age in Nevada, the 1950s; and a theatre named Sage fits right in there!
Here is a postcard circa 1957:
http://tinyurl.com/yzoeyoh
I passed theough Winnemucca on the way back to California from Denver week before last, and spotted the Sage, though I didn’t know its name at the time, as the marquee is gone. The front looks exactly like the photo in American Classic Images, but with the marquee gone and face brick around the entry. Inside the modern glass entrance doors, a ticket window is still to be seen on the right, and a poster case on the left, all surrounded with circa 1960s brown tiles. From what I could see of the interior, it is decorated like a mom and pop Mexican restaurant, with no theatre detail visible, at least from where I was standing. Going around the back, the theatre is long and narrow, and built of reinforced concrete. There may have been a small stage, but there is no fly tower.
The American Theatre in Winnemucca is mentioned in the May 3, 1947, issue of Boxoffice, and in earlier issues. The Sage Theatre in Wnnemucca is mentioned in the November 26, 1949, issue and in later issues. If they had the same address, then the house was called the American first and renamed the Sage sometime between 1947 and 1949.
The current occupant is Bridge Street BBQ, but I haven’t been able to confirm if this is the former theater building. It looks like the restaurant before Bridge Street was Chihuahua’s, a Mexican restaurant.