Atlanta Ave south of the railroad, and especially the portion between Ashe and Cohen (then known as B through D Streets), seem to have been the black neighborhood. The only businesses shown at all on the 1921 map were a tiny group of wooden stores on the east side, north of 20th. I doubt this was further south. The map ends at about the intersection with 17th, and there are very few structures.
This theater had to have closed before May of 1921. Must have been in the 100 block of either East or West 6th. There was quite a bit of new construction on both blocks between the 1910 map and the 1921 map.
This listing is wrong. The Strand is already operating on the May 1921 Sanborn. This location has only a few small wooden shops and homes on the 1910 map.
The address cannot be right. 117 is a small commercial building on the south corner of the block. The mutilated remains of the theater got a terrible remodel to ‘match’ the old bank on the north corner. Looks like the address was 103 or 105 S Main. Still vacant on the 2016 streetview.
If this theater did open in 1919, it had already closed by 1921, when the map shows a billiard hall with offices above. This listing has incorrect information about the Strand, which appears on the 1921 map. The building may have originally been constructed before 1884, in which case it was heavily remodeled, with the extension at the rear being added to convert it to a theater. It was a restaurant, but was abandoned by 2015. The tile entry is still visible, although mistreated. During the year(s?) it was a theater, the address may have been 109 S Main, but odds and evens switched sides sometime before 1921.
The building dates to before 1889, although the front appears to have been remodeled around 1910-20. It was used for retail until conversion to a theater.
I would have expected to be able to find the building just past the theater, with the distinctive angled entry. Couldn’t find anything like it on the 1921 map. Ash St has lost maybe 80% of the buildings, but it seems the most likely.
No, that’s not it. The neighboring buildings don’t match at all, and there’s a street just past the theater in the picture, which obviously isn’t there. The building at 104 bears no resemblance at all to the one in the picture. There are 4 windows on the second floor, not two, etc.
The information about the opera house is wrong. This space is an empty lot on the 1913 map. The 1921 map shows the Gem theater at this location, in a building that probably became the old Ritz as shown before the 1951 remodel. Confusingly, the old address was 106-108 W Main, which coincides with the current address for where the Roxy used to be.
There is some confusion about the location. Main St has been renumbered. On the 1921 map, the location of the empty lot where you would today expect to find 108 W Main is home to a commercial building with the addresses 225-229 E Main (odds and evens used to switch sides at the east-west divide, which was the railroad tracks/3rd St). The old 106-108 W Main is the location of today’s Ritz (with a 306 W Main address).
If this was in Blytheville, it must have been demolished long ago. Maybe on W Ash? Not sure what the Shibley’s non-sequitur is in reference to. There’s no business by that name in town.
Address is wrong. The street is Seltzer St, and the intersection with Scott makes it somewhere in the 200 block. It’s been demolished. Was probably where the ugly new bank is now, or maybe a block south.
The much older building (at dating to at least 1912, and probably earlier) across the intersection also has a G. Carpentier nameplate. It was a saloon on the side with the corner entrance, a store on the other, and apartments upstairs.
Building may still exist, partially. The eastern half is now a very sad and ugly little ‘park’, but the western half is still there, with a really ugly ‘modern’ facade. The remodeled building is shown as two stores on the 1950 map. It’s much deeper than the old theater, but the same height. Could be the dairy, or maybe a replacement?
Building was constructed sometime before 1886. It was originally a smaller wood frame structure, but was extended to the rear by 1898, that portion being brick. 1906 map shows it as a printer’s. By 1950, it had either been heavily remodeled or replaced by a similar structure, which is now gone. Location would have been just to the north of the building on the corner.
Atlanta Ave south of the railroad, and especially the portion between Ashe and Cohen (then known as B through D Streets), seem to have been the black neighborhood. The only businesses shown at all on the 1921 map were a tiny group of wooden stores on the east side, north of 20th. I doubt this was further south. The map ends at about the intersection with 17th, and there are very few structures.
It may have been vacant, since there are several spaces with that note. Definitely wasn’t anywhere else. The map only shows the Strand.
Note that while this theater was operating, the address was 105. Sometime before 1921, odds and evens switched sides.
This theater had to have closed before May of 1921. Must have been in the 100 block of either East or West 6th. There was quite a bit of new construction on both blocks between the 1910 map and the 1921 map.
Location today is a dull blocky structure being used by a church, but which looks like the sort of thing a bank would have built in the late ‘50s.
This listing is wrong. The Strand is already operating on the May 1921 Sanborn. This location has only a few small wooden shops and homes on the 1910 map.
The address cannot be right. 117 is a small commercial building on the south corner of the block. The mutilated remains of the theater got a terrible remodel to ‘match’ the old bank on the north corner. Looks like the address was 103 or 105 S Main. Still vacant on the 2016 streetview.
If this theater did open in 1919, it had already closed by 1921, when the map shows a billiard hall with offices above. This listing has incorrect information about the Strand, which appears on the 1921 map. The building may have originally been constructed before 1884, in which case it was heavily remodeled, with the extension at the rear being added to convert it to a theater. It was a restaurant, but was abandoned by 2015. The tile entry is still visible, although mistreated. During the year(s?) it was a theater, the address may have been 109 S Main, but odds and evens switched sides sometime before 1921.
The building dates to before 1889, although the front appears to have been remodeled around 1910-20. It was used for retail until conversion to a theater.
1919 map calls it the Comus, 1924 map calls it the Strand.
I would have expected to be able to find the building just past the theater, with the distinctive angled entry. Couldn’t find anything like it on the 1921 map. Ash St has lost maybe 80% of the buildings, but it seems the most likely.
No, that’s not it. The neighboring buildings don’t match at all, and there’s a street just past the theater in the picture, which obviously isn’t there. The building at 104 bears no resemblance at all to the one in the picture. There are 4 windows on the second floor, not two, etc.
The information about the opera house is wrong. This space is an empty lot on the 1913 map. The 1921 map shows the Gem theater at this location, in a building that probably became the old Ritz as shown before the 1951 remodel. Confusingly, the old address was 106-108 W Main, which coincides with the current address for where the Roxy used to be.
There is some confusion about the location. Main St has been renumbered. On the 1921 map, the location of the empty lot where you would today expect to find 108 W Main is home to a commercial building with the addresses 225-229 E Main (odds and evens used to switch sides at the east-west divide, which was the railroad tracks/3rd St). The old 106-108 W Main is the location of today’s Ritz (with a 306 W Main address).
If this was in Blytheville, it must have been demolished long ago. Maybe on W Ash? Not sure what the Shibley’s non-sequitur is in reference to. There’s no business by that name in town.
Not sure how the MLS came up with that wacky date. Even a glance at the building makes it obvious it can’t be postwar.
The building at 517 clearly has a ‘1925’ (or perhaps 1923?) at the top.
Address is wrong. The street is Seltzer St, and the intersection with Scott makes it somewhere in the 200 block. It’s been demolished. Was probably where the ugly new bank is now, or maybe a block south.
Address on the 1957 map is 1719. 1717 is the barbershop to the west.
Of course the Majestic was also operating, and that’s missing, too.
Looks like we have a few photos of the first Majestic which need to be moved to the other listing.
This certainly could be the one. I think the first Majestic was a conversion. This block had lots of empty space on the 1912 map.
The much older building (at dating to at least 1912, and probably earlier) across the intersection also has a G. Carpentier nameplate. It was a saloon on the side with the corner entrance, a store on the other, and apartments upstairs.
Building may still exist, partially. The eastern half is now a very sad and ugly little ‘park’, but the western half is still there, with a really ugly ‘modern’ facade. The remodeled building is shown as two stores on the 1950 map. It’s much deeper than the old theater, but the same height. Could be the dairy, or maybe a replacement?
Building was constructed sometime before 1886. It was originally a smaller wood frame structure, but was extended to the rear by 1898, that portion being brick. 1906 map shows it as a printer’s. By 1950, it had either been heavily remodeled or replaced by a similar structure, which is now gone. Location would have been just to the north of the building on the corner.