Garden Theatre

109 S. Jefferson Street,
Sigourney, IA 52591

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SethG
SethG on February 8, 2025 at 12:21 pm

Jackie’s is long gone, but this was a hair salon until recently. The latest streetview shows it vacant and for sale.

SethG
SethG on February 8, 2025 at 12:19 pm

This theater was definitely open by Dec. 1916. The building does not appear on the 1906 map. It was probably built as a theater. The 1914-15 American Motion Picture Directory lists a Majestic, which could very well be this building. The Garden is listed in 1926.

dallesandro74
dallesandro74 on June 18, 2011 at 4:21 am

I lived in Sigourney in 1973 and 1974. My dad and I saw quite a few movies at this theater during that time: a couple of Woody Allen comedies, Legend Of Boggy Creek, Pippi Longstockings, McQ, just to name a few. The theater closed down, I believe, around the end of 1974; when we returned to the area in 1975, it was closed.