Larry Fenstermacher & Paul Angstadt Eras

Local nonprofit organization Kutztown Community Partnership purchases the Strand from the estate of Paul Angstadt in February 2023. With a mission centered on local preservation and economic revitalization, the organization is working to restore and upgrade the building so it can once again serve as a gathering point for community members. MOVIE TRIVIA: Under KCP’s […]

The dual-screen Strand is owned and operated by Paul Angstadt until his death in June of 2022. For decades, Angstadt greets movie-goers each night in the century-old theatre’s lobby to take their tickets and directs them down the hallway to Theatre 1 or up the stairs to Theatre 2 to enjoy the movies. Following Angstadt’s

Paul Angstadt purchases the Strand in 1969 and operates it as a single theatre until the spring of 1977. Then, he implements plans to enclose the upper balcony and make The Strand a twin–a theatre with two screens. (Image: Paul Angstadt with his blueprint for the two-theater renovation from the Morning Call.)

Larry Fenstermacher purchases The Strand from Paul Herman in 1946, enlisting family members to operate the theatre. The Fenstermacher family lives in the building’s upstairs apartment until the early 1950s as they run the theatre below. The Strand runs two showings per night—the first at 7 and the second at 9 p.m. The same two