Growing up in Sedalia, for most of the 1960’s, the only places to see movies in Sedalia (at least from my memories) were the Fox or the 50-Drive In (destroyed by a tornado in the early 1980’s). In the late 60’s or early 70’s, there was a Jerry Lewis Twin Cinema that was later called the State Fair Twin Cinema. My understanding is that has since been closed. The Uptown was briefly open in the 1970’s. There was also a theater downtown that started showing old movies called either Bogie’s or Bogart’s. Because there wasn’t a big enough demand for classic movies in a town of 20,000, they started showing R-rated versions of porn movies. After they won an obscenity lawsuit, they started showing hard-core porn films until someone burned the theater down.
I came here because I was listening to an episode of the Old Time Radio program – “Dr. IQ” that was broadcast in 1942 from the Tower Theater. I hadn’t heard of it – too many of Kansas City’s old movie theaters, especially those downtown, have been destroyed. I moved to Kansas City, MO in the mid-1980’s and the only theaters downtown are still there, although 1 has been majorly remodeled.
Growing up in Sedalia, for most of the 1960’s, the only places to see movies in Sedalia (at least from my memories) were the Fox or the 50-Drive In (destroyed by a tornado in the early 1980’s). In the late 60’s or early 70’s, there was a Jerry Lewis Twin Cinema that was later called the State Fair Twin Cinema. My understanding is that has since been closed. The Uptown was briefly open in the 1970’s. There was also a theater downtown that started showing old movies called either Bogie’s or Bogart’s. Because there wasn’t a big enough demand for classic movies in a town of 20,000, they started showing R-rated versions of porn movies. After they won an obscenity lawsuit, they started showing hard-core porn films until someone burned the theater down.
I came here because I was listening to an episode of the Old Time Radio program – “Dr. IQ” that was broadcast in 1942 from the Tower Theater. I hadn’t heard of it – too many of Kansas City’s old movie theaters, especially those downtown, have been destroyed. I moved to Kansas City, MO in the mid-1980’s and the only theaters downtown are still there, although 1 has been majorly remodeled.