Casino Theatre
107 N. Main Street,
Charles City,
IA
50616
107 N. Main Street,
Charles City,
IA
50616
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The Casino Theatre was constructed in 1913 and opened by May 1914 and was located in a two-story brick building. It was fairly narrow, but deep enough to allow sufficient seating capacity.
This theatre was unable to compete with the much larger Hildreth Theatre, and it was closed sometime in the early-1920’s. The building was converted to a drugstore. It still existed in the late-1970’s, housing the local history museum.
At some point, this building, along with the entire rest of the block to the north, was demolished. It was for many years a vacant lot ‘park’, but by 2019 some mock old-style buildings had been built.
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Seth Gaines
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Although a Casino Theatre is listed at Charles City in the 1914 Polk Iowa State Gazetteer, it is not one of the two theater names listed there in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory (Gem and Lyric, neither with an address.) Most likely it’s the Directory’s error, as it is mentioned twice in Moving Picture World at least twice that year, once in May and once in June.