Strand Theater
18 E. Main Street,
St. Charles,
IL
60174
18 E. Main Street,
St. Charles,
IL
60174
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Previous Names: Star Theater
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The Star Theater was opened in January 1914 as a replacement for an earlier Star Theatre which became the Tryit Theatre. It was renamed Strand Theater by 1921 and was closed in early-1925. It has been demolished and in 2023 the site is a parking lot.
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The purchase of the Star Theatre in St. Charles, Illinois, by Robert Kremer of Geneva, Illinois, where he operated a house called the Grand Theatre, was noted in the July 8, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World. Kremer formed a partnership with W. J. Bryant, who would manage both the Star and another St. Charles house, the Idle Hour Theatre.
A later owner renamed the house the Strand Theatre, and it was closed and dismantled in 1925, according to this brief item posted at Geneology.com:
The Strand and Idle Hour Theatres are listed in the Moving Picture Theatres section of the 1921 Cahn Guide, each with 500 seats and both operated by B. J. Vought.
This opened in January 1914 as a replacement of an older Star Theatre that was renamed Tryit Theatre at the same time.