Goldie Roller Skating Rink, Fifth St., Sioux City, Iowa

• Operator: John R. Goldie(1884[1] - 1888), George Common (1889[3]-1893[5])
• Floor type: Maple wood.[2]
• Primary reason for closing: "Not a financial success."[4]
• Opened: 1884[1] - 1886
• Opened: 1889[3] - 1893[5]

1888 - License granted to Lew Waters to conduct a theater[6]
1889 - Back to skating.[3]
1893 - Becomes Sioux City Mattress Company[5]
1906 - End of the Goldie building as it is to be torn down.[4]
1906 - Lyric Vaudeville Theater built on the Goldie Rink site.[7]
1907 - Renamed Orpheum Theater.[8]
1918 - Renamed Gayety Theater.[9]
1926 - Renamed Rialto Theater.[11]
1941 - Renamed Victory Theater[10]
1965 - To be torn down & replaced with a parking lot.[11]




Skating finished. Now it's a theater.


Back to skating!


Now it's a mattress company.


End of the Goldie building as it is to be torn down.





Some history of the theater that came after the Goldie.

Lyric Theater & later called Orpheum
built on the old Goldie site.


Renamed as Gayety Theater.


A little John R. Goldie history
and the Gayety renamed as Rialto.


Rialto Theater will now be called the Victory Theater.


Victory Theater to be torn down.


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