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Strand Theater

279 North Main Street
Tooele, Utah

(1914 - After 1955)

The Strand Theater was built by John J. Gillette, in 1914.  In 1953 it was leased to Chester L. Price along with the Ritz and Motor-Vu Drive-In.[1]

The Strand Theater was build in the 1920s by H. H. Johnson and showed silent movies.[2]

The Strand Theater stopped showing movies sometime after 1955. [3]

1. "Centre Manager Resigns For New Theater Post", Deseret News, 4 December 1953, page A21
2. "Chapter 7: Society, Cultural Development, and Religion", A History of Tooele County, by Ouida Blanthorn, Utah State History CD-ROM
3. "Excel file", movietheatre.org, listing as its sources the Film Weekly Film Journal yearbooks 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and International motion picture almanacs 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2000