Strand Theatre

The Strand opened on July 3, 1925, with a two-night run of The Chocolate Soldier by the San Carlo Opera Company, in a hall of 2,250 seats with air conditioning. Its later life is the story. Paramount ran it as a movie house until 1970, and John Ford's The Horse Soldiers, starring John Wayne and William Holden, had its premiere here in 1960. The theatre closed in 1977, was donated to a local nonprofit and reopened on December 21, 1984, after a seven-year, $4.3 million campaign. Louisiana named it the official state theatre in 1980.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 0.2 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Spring Street Museum — 0.3 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 0.7 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 2.9 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.

More markers nearby

• Selber Bros — steps away
• Scottish Rite Cathedral — steps away
• Old B'nai Zion Temple — steps away
• Justin Gras — steps away