The name change from the Logan to the Paradise actually had happened by June 1930, as there is an advertisement in the Minneapolis Star Tribune for the news reel of the Sharkey-Schmelling fight showing at the Paradise.(“Tonight,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, 20 June, 1930, p22) Later in a July article, it’s also The Paradise as one of three independent movie theaters closed by the motion picture machine operator union strike. (“3 Movie Houses Closed by Strike,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, 7 July, 1930, p1) The renovation came in 1933, but the theater was renamed before that.
I raised my sons in Waverly from 1992 until 2013. Waverly is small enough that the kids would go downtown to the Palace Theater on their own and we parents didn’t worry about them. Although getting to Waterloo and Cedar Falls about 20 miles south wasn’t difficult, it was more fun to go to the Palace instead to sit among neighbors. The movies being shown were sometimes first runs, more often second runs, but there was a strong emphasis on having at least one of the three movies be appropriate for kids. Even being divided into three theaters, it truly follows in the tradition of old-time Main Street theaters.
Just a couple items for clarification:
The Lyndale was the New Lyndale for much of its early time, and it has always been at the 2932 Lyndale Avenue S address. That address is NOT in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood but is in the Lowry Hill East neighborhood and the Lyn-Lake district.
Since 2014, it has been the LynLake Brewery.
The name change from the Logan to the Paradise actually had happened by June 1930, as there is an advertisement in the Minneapolis Star Tribune for the news reel of the Sharkey-Schmelling fight showing at the Paradise.(“Tonight,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, 20 June, 1930, p22) Later in a July article, it’s also The Paradise as one of three independent movie theaters closed by the motion picture machine operator union strike. (“3 Movie Houses Closed by Strike,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, 7 July, 1930, p1) The renovation came in 1933, but the theater was renamed before that.
I raised my sons in Waverly from 1992 until 2013. Waverly is small enough that the kids would go downtown to the Palace Theater on their own and we parents didn’t worry about them. Although getting to Waterloo and Cedar Falls about 20 miles south wasn’t difficult, it was more fun to go to the Palace instead to sit among neighbors. The movies being shown were sometimes first runs, more often second runs, but there was a strong emphasis on having at least one of the three movies be appropriate for kids. Even being divided into three theaters, it truly follows in the tradition of old-time Main Street theaters.
Just a couple items for clarification: The Lyndale was the New Lyndale for much of its early time, and it has always been at the 2932 Lyndale Avenue S address. That address is NOT in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood but is in the Lowry Hill East neighborhood and the Lyn-Lake district. Since 2014, it has been the LynLake Brewery.