Community Theatre
N. Main Street and W. Market Street,
Cadiz,
OH
43907
N. Main Street and W. Market Street,
Cadiz,
OH
43907
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The 850-seat Community Theatre was a small theatre within the General Custer Hotel in downtown Cadiz. After years of deterioration and fading hopes for possible reuse, the hotel and theatre were demolished in the early-2010’s.
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Lou Rugani
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Three photos on this web page show the General Custer Hotel when the theater entrance was in place. It was on North Main Street, in the building with the cornice and the balustraded parapet, not in the plainer building right on the corner.
The buildings at the intersection are all still standing in the Street View, which is dated 2008, but in the satellite view, which is dated 2013, the roofs of several look like they are being demolished. I’ve been trying to puzzle out of the building toward the center of the block, which also looks partly roofless, was actually the theater’s auditorium. As the theater entrance was under the second and third upper floor window bays at the south end of the hotel, the lobby would have led straight back to the south end of the building that might have been the auditorium, and I’m inclined to think that’s what it was.
Vintage trade journals report the 1924 opening in Cadiz of the Community Theatre, which had Hubert L. Wardner as architect and Emerson W. Long as owner. The Community, which had 850 seats, was designed not only for movies but also for vaudeville and road companies of stage plays. The 1957 edition of Film Daily Year Book has the Community Theatre still open, with a seating capacity of 590 and address of 111 Main Street.
This item from the March 1, 1924 issue of Moving Picture World has to be about this theater, though the hotel was downsized from five stories to three before it was built:
Also please note correct name, address and seating capacity provided in the previous comment by Comfortably Cool. Both the theater and the hotel have now been completely demolished, though the hotel still appears in the Google street view dated July, 2012.