Theater

This small theater appears on the 1920 map. It was located in a one story brick storefront constructed before 1904, and which had been a hardware store in 1911.

It’s almost certain this theater was not open before 1914-15, as Oberlin does not appear in the AMPD. If this theater remained in operation until 1926, then it was the Legion Theater, with 200 seats, which made the transition to sound (offering Talk-a-Phone in 1930), but closed in 1931 or 1932.

The building remains today, but is one of several obscured behind a repellent 1970’s shingle front, compounded by a dismal corrugated awning from an urban ‘renewal’ project. It and a neighboring structure have been incorporated into a drug store.

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