Strand Theatre
303 Broadway Street,
Seaside,
OR
97138
303 Broadway Street,
Seaside,
OR
97138
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The lot at 316 Broadway is part of the footprint of a modern, block-square building called Seaside Carousel Mall. The mall has been there for over a quarter of a century, so the Strand building was probably demolished sometime before 1990.
PSTOS has a photo of the Strand, where a Robert Morton organ was installed in 1925.
B.J. Callahan’s Strand Theatre was mentioned in the trade journals quite a few times in the late 1910s an early 1920s. In 1915, Callahan was mentioned in a few publications as operator of a house in Seaside called the Critic Theatre. The Critic had been in operation at least as early as 1912, as it was mentioned in Joseph Gaston’s The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912, published that year.
The April 24, 1915, issue of Motography said that B.J. Callahan had begun construction on a new theater at Seaside. The project must have suffered delays, as the announcement of the Strand’s recent opening appeared in the April 12, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World.
An interesting wire service article about Callahan and his theater appeared in the April 7, 1922, issue of the Santa Cruz Evening News from Santa Cruz, California:
A 1949 directory lists B. J. Callahan as owner of both the Times Theatre and the Strand Theatre.The April 12, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World said this: “Seaside.â€"B. J. Callahan has opened the Strand theater here.”