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Sanborn map (and is inconsistent with the 1893 and 1900 Sanborn maps and with <br />current property descriptions and County records) and should not be relied on for this <br />part of Main Street in terms of the accuracy of the legal description. <br />Ownership by Otto Todd and Janie Beveridge Todd; Isis Theatre; 1908-1918 <br />Otto and Janie Todd acquired this property in 1908 and owned and operated a business <br />here until 1918. Otto Todd, born in Wisconsin in 1875, was a veteran of the Spanish- <br />American War. He passed away in 1929. Janie Todd, born in Illinois in 1884, had lived in <br />Louisville since her childhood as a member of the Scottish Beveridge family. She passed <br />away in 1965. <br />Otto Todd is believed to have initially operated a billiard hall in this location. By the time <br />of the census in 1910, however, he was listed as the operator of a moving picture <br />theatre, and by 1911, according to a Louisville directory, he was the proprietor of the <br />"Isis Theatre." Thus, it was Otto Todd who began using the building as a movie theater. <br />Films were projected from the front of the building to a screen at the rear. <br />Photo 3, 817 Main circa 1915, Louisville Historical Museum E-N N-8 <br />Photo 3 shows the front of this building, most likely at the time that it was owned and <br />operated by the Todds. A poster for the 1915 film Anna Karenina is being displayed in <br />this photo. <br />