Longtime theatre owner of the Owen Drive-In and the Owen Theatre passed away in 2013. Neither the theatre or the drive-in are open. Harold Owen was 93.
Address: 1 Owen Dr, Seymour, MO 65746 Phone:(417) 935-2232 this is the address and phone number listed on their facebook page. According to their facebook page due to health reasons the drive-in did not open in 2014.
CharlesB, my best friends father worked at Loew’s State in St. Louis while in high school and his hourly wage was 72 and a half cents per hour. Do you recall what your were paid by the hour?
This theatre goes back to at least the mid-1920’s when it was known as the Gasconade theatre and was still operating as a movie theatre at least into the late-1960’s. It was renovated fron 2004 thru 2007 when it was reopened as a live venue called the Owensville Community Theatre. Seating was originally listed at 525 but is now listed at 360. Should have an AKA Gasconade Theatre.
There was a whole slew of names for theatres in Osceola. They might have started out as the Grand but by 1929 there was a Paramount Theatre 250 seats, 1929 Cason Theatre 250 seats, 1933 Osceola Theatre 250 seats, 1945 Arcadia Theatre 250 seats. The first year the Civic Theatre was listed was in 1947 with seating listed at 406. The Arcadia was still listed as open in 1948 but gone by 1949.
A few blocks from the World Theatre, the Fort Theatre occupies a prominent place on Central Avenue. It was originally built in 1914 in a Classical Revival style with decorative brickwork laid out in a Greek temple motif. After a fire gutted the building in 1940 it was gussied up with its current Art Moderne marquee.
But the only film you’ll see there today is an X-Ray of your overbite since it is now the offices of Fort Theatre Dentistry. In lieu of an upcoming film the marquee states “New Patients Welcome.” The original lobby has been retained and converted into a waiting room complete with popcorn popper and red velvet ropes. As adaptive reuses go it’s pretty clever; better than tearing the old theater down as has happened in so many small towns across America.
At one time Kearney, Nebraska had not one but two theaters in town. Unfortunately only one is currently showing films. The World Theatre opened in 1930 but closed in 2008. A not-for-profit group has reopened it for weekend screenings of select films. I like the clever theme for their fundraising campaign, “Save The World.”
The Lincoln Theater is a well-known landmark for motorists traveling America’s first coast-to-coast road, the old Lincoln Highway. The 1950′s Art Deco style cinema still charges only a small admission.
It would be a real shame if the town of Winterset could not support its own Iowa Theatre. After all it is the county seat for Madison County of Bridges of Madison County fame; plus the birthplace of John Wayne is just a few blocks away. Although the theater usually presents only one film a week, it does host continuous showings of The Duke’s films during the annual John Wayne Birthday Celebration which takes place in May.
Opened in 1936, the Washoe Theater, along with Radio City Music Hall in New York, were the last American theaters to be built in an Art Deco spinoff known as Nuevo Deco. Since Anaconda was the company town for the hugely successful mining company of the same name, money was no object when the theater was built.The interior of the Washoe is stunning. So much so that the Smithsonian Institution selected it as the 5th most beautiful theater in America.
The Sikeston Drive-In was still listed as open in 1967.
Longtime theatre owner of the Owen Drive-In and the Owen Theatre passed away in 2013. Neither the theatre or the drive-in are open. Harold Owen was 93.
Address: 1 Owen Dr, Seymour, MO 65746 Phone:(417) 935-2232 this is the address and phone number listed on their facebook page. According to their facebook page due to health reasons the drive-in did not open in 2014.
The Strand Theatre for this page opened on August 10, 1927.
Joe, there was a theatre in St. Louis called the Gravois where the steel trusses were external. Is that unusual in theatre construction?
CharlesB, my best friends father worked at Loew’s State in St. Louis while in high school and his hourly wage was 72 and a half cents per hour. Do you recall what your were paid by the hour?
raysson, why not upload the ads to the photo section on this page?
When this drive-in first opened in 1950 it was just called simply the Drive-In. The Clinton wasn’t attached until 1954.
devan328 Yes this theatre was actually called the Agate Theatre.
Now operated by AMC and the name on their website is AMC Showplace Poplar Bluff 8. website
The Jewel theatre was located as 218 N. Main St. Poplar Bluff, MO. 63901.
website Actually the Drive-In is located on MO Highway 34 and 339A.
Commercial Boulevard and Highway 61-67 are one in the same.
The Royal Theatre dates back into at least the mid-1920’s when it was listed as open.
This theatre goes back to at least the mid-1920’s when it was known as the Gasconade theatre and was still operating as a movie theatre at least into the late-1960’s. It was renovated fron 2004 thru 2007 when it was reopened as a live venue called the Owensville Community Theatre. Seating was originally listed at 525 but is now listed at 360. Should have an AKA Gasconade Theatre.
There was a whole slew of names for theatres in Osceola. They might have started out as the Grand but by 1929 there was a Paramount Theatre 250 seats, 1929 Cason Theatre 250 seats, 1933 Osceola Theatre 250 seats, 1945 Arcadia Theatre 250 seats. The first year the Civic Theatre was listed was in 1947 with seating listed at 406. The Arcadia was still listed as open in 1948 but gone by 1949.
Was this a Dickinson Theatre?
According to their website this drive-in does have 4 screens.
Their website says they are fully digital.
According to their website the Midway is open playing first run attractions.
A few blocks from the World Theatre, the Fort Theatre occupies a prominent place on Central Avenue. It was originally built in 1914 in a Classical Revival style with decorative brickwork laid out in a Greek temple motif. After a fire gutted the building in 1940 it was gussied up with its current Art Moderne marquee. But the only film you’ll see there today is an X-Ray of your overbite since it is now the offices of Fort Theatre Dentistry. In lieu of an upcoming film the marquee states “New Patients Welcome.” The original lobby has been retained and converted into a waiting room complete with popcorn popper and red velvet ropes. As adaptive reuses go it’s pretty clever; better than tearing the old theater down as has happened in so many small towns across America.
At one time Kearney, Nebraska had not one but two theaters in town. Unfortunately only one is currently showing films. The World Theatre opened in 1930 but closed in 2008. A not-for-profit group has reopened it for weekend screenings of select films. I like the clever theme for their fundraising campaign, “Save The World.”
The Lincoln Theater is a well-known landmark for motorists traveling America’s first coast-to-coast road, the old Lincoln Highway. The 1950′s Art Deco style cinema still charges only a small admission.
It would be a real shame if the town of Winterset could not support its own Iowa Theatre. After all it is the county seat for Madison County of Bridges of Madison County fame; plus the birthplace of John Wayne is just a few blocks away. Although the theater usually presents only one film a week, it does host continuous showings of The Duke’s films during the annual John Wayne Birthday Celebration which takes place in May.
Opened in 1936, the Washoe Theater, along with Radio City Music Hall in New York, were the last American theaters to be built in an Art Deco spinoff known as Nuevo Deco. Since Anaconda was the company town for the hugely successful mining company of the same name, money was no object when the theater was built.The interior of the Washoe is stunning. So much so that the Smithsonian Institution selected it as the 5th most beautiful theater in America.