Strand Theatre
121 Rum River Drive S,
Princeton,
MN
55371
121 Rum River Drive S,
Princeton,
MN
55371
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Previous Names: Crystal Theatre
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This was located in the Strand Building. It was possibly opened as the Crystal Theatre which had opened by 1915. It had been renamed Strand Theatre by 1926 with 350-seats. By 1929 it was listed with 400-seats. The Strand Theatre was still open in 1955, but had closed by 1956. It became a nightclub named Porky’s. It later became a printworks for the Princetown Today newspaper, which had closed by 2015 and the building stood unused for several years. By 2023 the front of the building was in use as office space for an insurance company. The stage house still exists at the rear of the building.
A new Strand Theatre was opened in the 1980’s, located in a strip mall (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures).
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Ken Roe
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The June 20, 1918 issue of The Princeton Union carried an advertisement giving the upcoming schedule for the “Strand Theater (Formerly Crystal)….” The earliest appearance of the name Crystal Theater I’ve seen in the paper is in 1915. Prior to that the only theater name to appear was Happyland.
The theater marquee was still on the Strand building in the mid-1980s, when the Union published a photo of it with a caption noting that it still looked much the same as it had the previous year when a St. Paul architect had announced that he would remodel the interior for a mixed use project. Comments on the local Facebook page also say that for a time the building housed a nightclub called Porky’s, but it isn’t pinned down to a specific era.