Theatre
1195 Court Avenue,
Marengo,
IA
52301
1195 Court Avenue,
Marengo,
IA
52301
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I think we’ll have to find another name for this house, as I’ve found evidence that the Oriental (or more likely Orient) Theatre opened in 1912, and so would not have been this house on the 1910 Sanborn. I now suspect that Orient was the original name of the house that later became the Strand and then the Marengo. I’ll put a comment about this on the Marengo page.
Trade journals from 1913 and 1914 mention a W. C. Eddy of Marengo who was secretary of the Iowa Motion Picture Exhibitors' League, and the July 4, 1914 issue of The Billboard even devoted a large part of a page to a letter he wrote to them regarding the evils of censorship, but not once have I found the name of his theater mentioned. The only theater name connected with Marengo I’ve found in the trades is the Strand, and that never before 1940.