Five Flags Center
405 Main Street,
Dubuque,
IA
52001
405 Main Street,
Dubuque,
IA
52001
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The September 29, 1956 issue of Boxoffice has an article about extensive remodeling of the Orpheum at Dubuque being undertaken by new owners the World Theatre Company of Minneapolis. Plans for the $75,000 project had been prepared by Liebenberg & Kaplan. Seeman Kaplan would personally supervise the work.
This is not the only theater in Dubuque to have had the name Orpheum. The 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory lists a house called the Orpheum at 336 Main Street.
1910 image added via Gary Dieters‎.
Shows original cost at $125,000.00
Undated photo as the Majestic added via Robert Ungs.
Side note: before being called the Moulin Rouge it was the Mistinguett Music Hall.
Although the former Majestic Theater is part of the Five Flags Center, the theater itself is billed as the Five Flags Theater (move Street View closer and see the name on the windows.)
Encyclopedia Dubuque has pages for the Majestic Theatre, which features three interior photos, and for the Orpheum Theatre, which has a photo showing the facade.
The line in the introduction saying that the Majestic was modeled after the original Moulin Rouge in Paris doesn’t make sense, as this is what the original Moulin Rouge looked like.
The first all-talking movie, Lights of New York, began a run at the Majestic Theatre on August 5, 1928.
NEWSPAPER AD
Here is another LOC photo, no date given:
http://tinyurl.com/2mrqwe
Here’s another view from a different LOC page:
http://tinyurl.com/2uk89g
Here is one of the Library of Congress photos from Ed Wilke’s link. There are twelve if you happen across the site:
http://tinyurl.com/34er8t
Here is the official website:
http://tinyurl.com/yrup33
Here is a link:
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The RKO Orpheum Theatre seated 1000 people.
The theatre architects were Rapp and Rapp. It was built in about 1910.