Strand Theatre
112 N. Main Street,
Tuscumbia,
AL
35674
112 N. Main Street,
Tuscumbia,
AL
35674
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Louis Rosenbaum bought the Strand and Pastime Theatres at Tuscumbia around the beginning of 1922, according to an item in the January 18 issue of Film Daily that year. He was still the owner in 1928, as noted in this item from Film Daily of January 3 that year:
Location today is a dull blocky structure being used by a church, but which looks like the sort of thing a bank would have built in the late ‘50s.
This listing is wrong. The Strand is already operating on the May 1921 Sanborn. This location has only a few small wooden shops and homes on the 1910 map.
It is possible that this theater used an instrument known as a “Reproduco”, which was a player piano type instrument with about three or four ranks of organ pipes, to accompany silent films. Reproducos were made by the Operators Piano Company of Chicago, which was also well known for its line of coin-operated pianos known as “Coinolas.”