Paseo Theatre
8100 The Paseo,
Kansas City,
MO
64133
8100 The Paseo,
Kansas City,
MO
64133
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Under new management, the remodeled venue had a grand reopening of the New Paseo Theatre held on June 17, 1941 with “Buck Privates” and “Footsteps in the Dark.” That theater burned on January 25, 1943. The new New Paseo Theater relaunched on March 29, 1945 with “Lake Placid Serenade” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
That Paseo also was gutted by fire on December 8, 1950 making its last films December 7, 1950 with a triple feature of “In The Navy” and “Saps at Sea” supported by a Three Stooges short, “Malice in the Palace.” This time, the theatre’s walls stood tall and the venue was replaced by a wholesale location for the U.S. Toy Company. The building was then gutted by a major fire there on November 27, 1957 destroying what once was the auditorium of the theater. The building’s original facade is pretty much in place with the back of the building truncated.
Correct address is 8100 The Paseo.
This reopened as Paseo on April 4th, 1931. Grand opening ad in the photo section. It opened as the Marlborough in 1924
This Paseo Theatre was a replacement for an earlier house of the same name which was destroyed by fire on January 25, 1943. The July 8, 1944, issue of Boxoffice Magazine said that a permit to rebuild the theater had been issued and contracts were to be let within a month. Both the new and old houses had 750 seats. The architect of the rebuilt Paseo was Charles A. Smith.
The new Paseo opened in 1945, and was the subject of an article in the May 26 issue of Boxoffice that year. This article says that architect Smith had designed the original Paseo, which had been built in an existing, pre-1920 building in 1940. The article does not make clear whether or not the existing building had ever been a theater.
The Paseo was also known as the Marlborough.