Orpheum Theatre
210 High Avenue W,
Oskaloosa,
IA
52577
210 High Avenue W,
Oskaloosa,
IA
52577
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This theatre appears on the 1917 Sanborn. It was located in a two story brick commercial building constructed sometime between 1896 and 1902. The 1910 map shows a marble works here. The building was originally quite shallow, but it was extended in the rear to convert it to a theatre.
This theatre was likely closed when the far superior Rivola Theatre opened just a few doors to the east in 1921. The 1927 map shows a store here. The building was later combined with the building to the west to form one storefront.
The building survived until the early-1980’s, when it was one of dozens of structures on 10-12 blocks of downtown replaced by an ugly little mall surrounded by surface parking.
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Seth Gaines
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The Oskaloosa Orpheum was part of a chain that does not appear to have been related to the national Orpheum vaudeville circuit. Here is part of an item from the January 26, 1918 issue of Moving Picture World: “M. R. Angel, of the Angel Brothers, who operated and owned the first chain of picture houses in the Middle West, was a caller at the Pathe exchange in Des Moines last week. Mr. Angel and his brother owned the famous Angel Bros.‘ Orpheum circuit and opened houses in Oskaloosa, Keokuk, Cedar Rapids, Savannah, Ill., and Galesburg, Ill.”