Additional history credit Lisa Ruble. (multiple images added)
K P Opera House was built in 1894 by H Clay Kibler. Architect was Henry Elliott who also designed the Pike County Illinois Courthouse. K P stands for Knights of Pythias.
Grand Opening was Thursday January 10, 1895.
Exterior was changed by 1914.
This is the same building that was the Clark Theatre later. After Clark Armentrout, owner of Clark Theater, passed away in 1960 the building was sold and become The John Green Store then it was PN Hirsch. After that The Dollar General Store and presently The Reach Out and Two Rivers Regional Council.
Clark Armentrout owned the theatres in Pittsfield and Barry (Pike County Illinois) and in Louisiana and Shelbina Missouri. He also on Clark Drive-In at Summer Hill (Pike County Illinois) and the Zoe Theatre in Pittsfield.
1939 – Photo Credit: Arthur Rothstein
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives.
The building had a fire on 2/24/20, which appears in the Google current street view.
The Los Angeles Theatres blogspot website has additional vintage photos and of the fire, but it won’t link here because CT reads it as Spam.
Street view shows a newer facade, likely done when converted to Home Bank. As the night deposit drawer is still in place. Retail space is split with the left half housing Mountain Attitude Designs jewelry, apparel and gifts. The right half houses Escape The Line 30 Minute Game Rooms. Copperhill also had a Cherokee Theatre, but the location is unknown.
Demolished April 23, 1984 – Bulldozers were tearing down the South Twin Drive-In at Lemay Ferry and Buckley. Wehrenberg Theaters President Ron Krueger said that the land would be much more valuable when developed into a supermarket.
Per Vintage St. Louis & Route 66 Facebook page.
Additional history in below link, indicates B.F. Keith took over management from 1912-1922, when film then was introduced to it.
So Keith’s Hippodrome should be added to previous names.
Postcard advertising such added as well.
Originally opened and run by Associated Theatres of Kentucky.
Possibly named J-Town Dollar Theatre as the very end.
There was also a Jefferson Theatre but I can’t find any info about it.
Address is 5110 50 Street, zip code is T0B 0H0.
Opened as the Majestic Theatre in 1915 as a silent film theatre, showing films throughout the `20s.
It was used as a church in the early 1930s, and was renovated back to films as Dixy Theatre in the early 1940s until 1984.
Currently being restored to it’s 1920s interior as a dinner theatre, performing artists space and museum.
Facebook page for Friends of the Majestic Theatre below.
Opening night.
Per Lisa Ruble: “It (the bombing) happened during the night. The theatre was fixed and opened within the week. No one was ever arrested. Image added.
Additional history credit Lisa Ruble. (multiple images added)
K P Opera House was built in 1894 by H Clay Kibler. Architect was Henry Elliott who also designed the Pike County Illinois Courthouse. K P stands for Knights of Pythias. Grand Opening was Thursday January 10, 1895. Exterior was changed by 1914. This is the same building that was the Clark Theatre later. After Clark Armentrout, owner of Clark Theater, passed away in 1960 the building was sold and become The John Green Store then it was PN Hirsch. After that The Dollar General Store and presently The Reach Out and Two Rivers Regional Council.
Clark Armentrout owned the theatres in Pittsfield and Barry (Pike County Illinois) and in Louisiana and Shelbina Missouri. He also on Clark Drive-In at Summer Hill (Pike County Illinois) and the Zoe Theatre in Pittsfield.
1939 – Photo Credit: Arthur Rothstein Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives.
May 10, for May 12, 1917 grand opening newspaper ad added courtesy Mason Vincent‎.
From the Chicago Tribune March 29th 1969.
The building had a fire on 2/24/20, which appears in the Google current street view. The Los Angeles Theatres blogspot website has additional vintage photos and of the fire, but it won’t link here because CT reads it as Spam.
Street view shows a newer facade, likely done when converted to Home Bank. As the night deposit drawer is still in place. Retail space is split with the left half housing Mountain Attitude Designs jewelry, apparel and gifts. The right half houses Escape The Line 30 Minute Game Rooms. Copperhill also had a Cherokee Theatre, but the location is unknown.
1930s photo added courtesy Ralph Mitchell. Bohemia marquee left of center.
Demolished April 23, 1984 – Bulldozers were tearing down the South Twin Drive-In at Lemay Ferry and Buckley. Wehrenberg Theaters President Ron Krueger said that the land would be much more valuable when developed into a supermarket. Per Vintage St. Louis & Route 66 Facebook page.
1926 photo added credit W.C. Persons, courtesy Missouri Historical Society Collection.
May 24, 1940 photo added courtesy Vintage St. Louis & Route 66 Facebook page.
Lancaster Online link with photos.
https://lancasteronline.com/lanclife/remember-when-11-scenes-from-the-rise-and-fall-of-lancaster-countys-drive-in-movie/article_773e9fdc-99fc-11ea-9294-07aa27c47857.html
April 1962 and September 1979 marquee photos added from below link.
https://lancasteronline.com/lanclife/remember-when-11-scenes-from-the-rise-and-fall-of-lancaster-countys-drive-in-movie/article_773e9fdc-99fc-11ea-9294-07aa27c47857.html
Original Jack K. Vogel artist’s rendering added courtesy Edward Dedmon. Mid-Way was spelled with a hyphen.
Additional history in below link, indicates B.F. Keith took over management from 1912-1922, when film then was introduced to it. So Keith’s Hippodrome should be added to previous names. Postcard advertising such added as well.
https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/25
Demolished in 1986 per two sources. November 1939 photo added credit Frank Carroll.
Originally opened and run by Associated Theatres of Kentucky. Possibly named J-Town Dollar Theatre as the very end. There was also a Jefferson Theatre but I can’t find any info about it.
Dream Theater sign case in the French Lick West Baden Museum collection. I reached out to them for the original address.
https://aable91.wixsite.com/flwbmuseum/the-town-gallery
1957 Kodachrome photo credit Chalmers Butterfield.
Circa 1938 photo courtesy Old Images of Pennsylvania.
Address is 5110 50 Street, zip code is T0B 0H0. Opened as the Majestic Theatre in 1915 as a silent film theatre, showing films throughout the `20s. It was used as a church in the early 1930s, and was renovated back to films as Dixy Theatre in the early 1940s until 1984. Currently being restored to it’s 1920s interior as a dinner theatre, performing artists space and museum. Facebook page for Friends of the Majestic Theatre below.
https://www.facebook.com/majestictheatrebashaw/
Additional history in below link.
https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/tn7301.htm
May 1973 photo.
https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/tn7301.htm
203 N. Water Street is technically the address today.