Theatre
1204 Washington Street,
Eldora,
IA
50627
1204 Washington Street,
Eldora,
IA
50627
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The 1920 Sanborn shows a theatre in the northern storefront of a large 2-story brick commercial building constructed sometime between 1893 and 1900. The 1915 map shows implements and wagons being sold here.
This theatre likely did not last very long, and the 1940 map shows it has reverted to retail. Unfortunately, the building was demolished at some point, and the site is a parking lot.
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Seth Gaines
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As this house occupied space formerly housing a store that sold implements, I wonder if it could have been this project noted in the October 2, 1920 issue of Exhibitors Herald:
The rather ambiguous and awkward wording (“…preparatory to its reopening>” suggests that the theater might have operated earlier at a different location. If so, it could have been either the Bijou or the Princess, both of which were listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, the Bijou on Marion (now Edgington) Avenue and the Princess at an unlisted location. Whatever the name of this house, only the Grand was listed at Eldora in the FDY by 1926. Despite no other theaters listed in FDYs from the late 1920s, I did find one reference to a house in Eldora called the Family Theatre in a 1928 issue of Motion Picture News. There is no clue to its location, though.