Wilupp Theatre
401 Walker Street,
Woodbine,
IA
51579
401 Walker Street,
Woodbine,
IA
51579
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This theater appears on the 1913 Sanborn. It was located in a one-story brick storefront built in 1888, which housed a grocery on the 1908 map. The theater was open by early-1913 at the latest, as it was badly damaged by the Easter Sunday Tornado outbreak that March. Either the conversion to a theater or the post-tornado repairs led to the tin cornice being removed, with a boxier facade resulting.
The theater is still listed in the 1914-15 AMPD. By 1926 a Woodbine Theatre is listed, which may or may not have been this building. Unfortunately, the 1930 map is not available online. The 1943 yearbook lists a Pix Theatre. Some assistance will be needed to determine the correct name for this theater, and a chronology.
This building was demolished quite some time ago, and this corner is a vacant lot.
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Seth Gaines
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There was also a Gem elsewhere in town in the 1914-15 AMPD. Nothing on the 1913 map for that, so I assume it opened sometime in 1914. It seems that this building was still partly around in 2006. I found a photo showing the butchered remains of the south wall frankensteined onto a raw plywood mess. It was a bar at that point.