Ogden Theater
241 W. Walnut Street,
Ogden,
IA
50212
241 W. Walnut Street,
Ogden,
IA
50212
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The Ogden Theater was opened by 1939. William McGraw has managed the Ogden Theater since 1949, and has made numerous improvements. A side screen was added in 1956, and the CinemaScope lenses were purchased at the time. A new high fidelity sound system was installed in 1961.
Theater was closed in 1974 and was taken over by the American Legion in 1975.
By 2019 it was in use as the American Legion McGraw Senior Center.
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Hank Zaletel
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“Ogden Theatre closed in 1974 when Bill McGraw passed away at the age of 88.” (Ogden Reporter, January 24, 2018.) The operators of the McGraw Center have bought a 16-foot inflatable screen which has been set up on the stage, and a used projector (type not specified) and as of 2018 were attempting to bring movies back to the theater part time, but were having trouble with getting licenses from the movie companies. I don’t see anything on the Internet about movies being shown there currently, so they’ve probably not been able to get the project going yet.
Ogden Theatre can be seen on the right at 13:01 in the below video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MD_WuK1b8E&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0Aeb4IR1ZuVQlosflC55f_yekei4KScKH6UskBKt1qgnv_7y0vR_n3xZk
The Legion moved in in 1975.