Isis Theater

rivest266 on August 14, 2024 at 7:37 am

Closed February 1st, 1954

Isis theatre closing 03 Feb 1954, Wed The News and Advance (Lynchburg, Virginia) Newspapers.com

rivest266 on August 13, 2024 at 6:50 pm

Became Isis (Not the Islamic state) on March 23rd, 1916. National Theatre opening 18 Mar 1916, Sat The News and Advance (Lynchburg, Virginia) Newspapers.com

Joe Vogel on August 2, 2012 at 6:38 pm

Here is a photo of the Isis Theatre, with a photo of the sprawling Holiday Inn that now occupies the sites of both the Isis and the Paramount Theatre. The caption notes that the Isis was a reverse theater, with the screen at the entrance end of the auditorium.

The August 12, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World said that Jake Wells had secured Fred Karch to play the Seeburg organ at the Isis Theatre. Wells was one of the leading vaudeville impresarios and movie exhibitors in the south before selling his holdings in 1919.

I was a bit surprised to see the mention of a Seeburg organ. J. P. Seeburg Co., later known for its jukeboxes, was then known for making coin-operated player pianos and orchestrions, and I had no idea they had ever made theater organs. Apparently they were quite popular around 1916, when The Music Trade Review ran an article about the expansion of the Seeburg plant to accommodate the demand for theater pipe organs.