New Strand Theatre
111 E. 3rd Street,
West Liberty,
IA
52776
111 E. 3rd Street,
West Liberty,
IA
52776
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The theater closed in February 2024 due to a failed projector.
West Liberty, IA: New Strand Theatre Closed While Raising Funds for Projector Replacement [Feb 5, 2024]
Thanks, that has to be it. The photo is across a park too. I’ll create a page for it and see what else shakes out.
Sidney, Iowa, is a very small town, and though I can’t find an address for the Strand Theatre (in fact I haven’t even found the name Strand mentioned) it would almost certainly have been located along one of the streets facing the town’s two-block-long public square. I did find mentions of a house called the Cozy Theatre operating at Sidney in the early 1920s, and there is a July 15, 1963 item in Boxoffice saying that “…the equipment from the theatre at Sidney, Iowa” had been sold, and the building “…remodeled into a ladies' ready-to-wear shop.” The house had last been operated by the city, Boxoffice said.
Joe Vogel, maybe you can find an address for a theatre in Sidney Iowa, possibly called “The Strand”. Apears to have been in operation in the
40s-60 possibly. I found a photo of it from a distance on that county’s Facebook page. If you find any info maybe add a page for it or I can.The New Strand’s origin as the West Liberty Opera House in 1910 means that it was indeed the project designed by Dieman & Fiske.
Full history below, including the original name it was built as: West Liberty OperaHouse
http://newstrand.com/about-us/history/
Featuring Digital Projection and 3D.
Given its 1910 opening, it seems likely that the New Strand is the opera house mentioned in various 1910 issues of The American Contractor. The item in the May 28 issue says:
Architects Charles Dieman and Ferdinand Fiske maintained offices in both Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Lincoln, Nebraska, and their firm was among the busiest in the region during their late 19th and early 20th century partnership.