Comet Theatre
211 W. Adams Street,
Creston,
IA
50801
211 W. Adams Street,
Creston,
IA
50801
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This theater first appears on the 1907 Sanborn. It was located in a two story brick building constructed sometime between 1886 and 1891. The 1899 map shows a clothing store here.
This theater was still open in 1914-15, when it appears in the American Motion Picture Directory. Perhaps pushed out of business by two large theaters to the west, it had closed by 1923, when the map shows it used as retail and by 1941 it had become a Montgomery Ward store.
This building and the neighboring structure to the east were remodeled at some point after about 1940 into a fairly bland unified facade. The ground floor of both became a restaurant in 1973, but this has closed.
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Seth Gaines
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From The Show World, October 22, 1910: “L. P. Priessman, president of the Comet Amusement Company of Creston, Iowa, which operates houses at Red Oak, Alba and Creston, will open a new theater at Creston, November 7. All of the Comet houses are booked by the W. V. M. A..”
As the house at 211 W. Adams was in operation by 1907, the 1910 project must have been another theater, but I’ve been unable to determine which one. Perhaps it was the unidentified predecessor to the Uptown, just down the block from the Comet.