UA Granada 4
24 W. 1st Street,
Reno,
NV
89501
24 W. 1st Street,
Reno,
NV
89501
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Previously operated by: T & D Jr. Enterprises Inc., United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
Architects: George A. Ferris
Styles: Art Deco
Previous Names: T & D Theatre, Rialto Theatre, Granada Theatre
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A nice old theatre with a beautiful red curtain on West 1st Street in Reno. It was opened as the T & D Theatre on February 10, 1916 with Wheeler Oakman in “The Ne'er Do Well”. On October 15, 1917 it became a live venue renamed Rialto Theatre presenting Oliver Morosco’s production of the musical farce “Blanch Ring”. On November 27, 1926 it was re-named Granada Theatre and was part of the T & D Jr. Enterprises chain out of San Francisco, California screening movies again. It went through a major remodel on September 1, 1954, reopening with James Stewart in “Rear Window”. It used to have a balcony, but on November 15, 1974 it was enclosed for a second screen. On July 15, 1973 it became the Granada 4. It had a beautiful blue neon sign in front. The lobby was done up in blue. The carpets in the theatre proper had a carpet with the UA cinemas logo (of course not original) when it was bought out by United Artists. They closed it on September 6, 1993. It was demolished in the mid-1990’s.
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Does anyone know what happened to David Stewart? I worked with him and curious of what he is doing.
I was looking for David Stewert also, but I have not located him even on Facebook. I thought it would be fun to talk of old times.
The March 8, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World had a couple of paragraphs about the T & D circuit’s theater in Reno, which had opened recently. I haven’t yet been able to establish a definite connection between the T&D house and the original Granada, but I suspect that they were the same theater. The T & D was reported to have 1,600 seats, and the original Granada certainly had a large enough footprint to accommodate that many. The only other candidate, the Majestic, was built in 1910.
This weblog post, mostly about the Majestic, says that the Granada opened in 1915 as the Rialto Theatre and was renamed the Granada in 1926. It might have been called the Rialto for a while, but all the first Turner & Dahnken houses in a given city that I’ve come across so far were originally called the T & D Theatre.
Here are the paragraphs about the unnamed T & D house at Reno from the 1916 article:
Architect George A. Ferris established his practice at Reno in 1906, and became one of the region’s leading architects, designing such landmarks as the El Cortez Hotel in Reno and the Governor’s mansion in Carson City, as well as a large number of the public schools in the region.Uploaded the grand opening ads from 1916 as T & D, 1917 as Rialto, as Granada from September 21st, 1926 September 1st, 1949 after major renovations.
2 screens on November 15th, 1974. Grand opening ad in photo section.
July 15th, 1983 grand opening ad as Granada 4 in photo section
1926 photo added courtesy of Stephen Gennerich.
Like so many UA theatres they kept on twinning the place. I think this cinema got flooded out many times from the Truckee River nearby.
The Granada Theatre received major reconstruction in 1954. United California Theatres reopened the Granada on September 1, 1954, reopening with James Stewart in “Rear Window” and Walt Disney’s “Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom”.
Became the Granada 4 on July 15, 1983, and closed by United Artists on September 6, 1993.