Sparta Theatre

141 W. Broadway Street,
Sparta, IL 62286

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Previously operated by: Turner-Farrar Theaters

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Sparta Theatre

The Sparta Theatre opened in 1951, and was built on the site of the Grand Theatre (which has its own page on Cinema Treasures), which had been destroyed by fire.

The same fate fell on the Sparta Theatre in 1986.

Contributed by Bryan Krefft, Ken Roe

Recent comments (view all 6 comments)

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on September 19, 2007 at 7:08 pm

The Sparta was part of the Turner-Farrar theater chain in the early sixties.

bodkin6071
bodkin6071 on August 16, 2009 at 4:27 pm

This theater burned down?

StillOkie
StillOkie on June 16, 2017 at 4:10 am

I remember my Dad used to stop by there if going by sometimes on an occasional evening and he’d get take out popcorn for us to have for watching the new cable TV movies he had subscribed our household to. My mom worked the counter there, she said she knew J.D. from thence, when she was a “teenie bopper” cheerleader at Sparta High ~lol

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on April 20, 2021 at 6:13 pm

Address was 141 West Broadway, same as the previous Grand Theatre on the same site. I added a 1971 photo and the same bank building to the Sparta’s left is still standing in the July 2019 street view. The former Sparta Theatre site is still a grass covered vacant lot, with part of the perimeter foundation still visible.

Norman Plant
Norman Plant on April 20, 2021 at 6:39 pm

I’ve been through Sparta many times through the years, and I can confirm that grassy vacant lot is where the Sparta Theater once stood.

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