Strand Theater

326 W. Chestnut Street,
Louisville, KY 40202

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on September 27, 2026 at 5:24 pm

The January 6, 1917 issue of The New York Dramatic Mirror said that the B. F. Keith circuit had acquired the lease on the Masonic Theatre in Louisville and would operate it as a high-class movie house called the Strand. An orchestra of thirty pieces had been hired. As well as their big vaudeville house, the circuit was also already operating the Mary Anderson Theatre as a movie house.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on February 16, 2013 at 8:00 pm

Here is a closer view of the Strand from Lincoln Park, taken in 1950.

This page has two photos of the Strand taken on June 19, 1952 (click the thumbnail in the right-hand column to enlarge the second photo.)

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on February 16, 2013 at 7:00 pm

Here is a 1947 photo showing the Strand Theatre from across the short-lived Lincoln Park.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on September 25, 2010 at 1:02 am

The Dodd of the architecutral firm Dodd & Cobb was William J. Dodd, who later moved to California, where he designed the Kinema Theatre in Los Angeles.