by Mike Walden

When the Strand Theater was erected on the Marietta Square in the early 1900's, it was the epicenter of culture in the rural southern town of Marietta. The theater stands at the north end of the square, and in its earlier days, housed live theater, classic cinema, and was even used for musical performances by such national talents as R.E.M. and the Ramones. Dan Cox, a Marietta native since the 1930's remembers the Strand for what it once was. “ When I was a boy, the Strand is where you went to go see a movie or show on the Square. There where two other theaters there, but they weren’t nearly as nice as the Strand was in those days.”

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