Strand Theatre
 New Orleans, Louisiana

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Baronne Street, New Orleans
Opened: July 4, 1917

 


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The Strand is running D. W. Griffith's The Great Love.


 

  Owned & operated by the Saenger organization, the Strand Theatre was the company's premier New Orleans house until the opening of the New Orleans Saenger Theatre quite a few years later.

The New Orleans Strand housed a Wurlitzer Style 4 organ (2 manuals, 8 ranks, 5PR 10TS Cathedral Chimes ), which was later replaced with a 3 manual, 8 rank Robert Morton organ. The Robert Morton organ may have later been enlarged to 10 ranks.

Organist Rosa Rio played here; Ray McNamara later became the Strand's house organist after leaving the post of associate organist at the New Orleans Saenger Theatre.

In later days, the Strand was outfitted with 70mm projectors, an enormous curved screen & became New Orleans' Todd-AO house.

   Ad for Saenger's New Orleans theaters in 1922  

 

Photograph & information generously provided by Dr. Barry Henry of New Orleans

 

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