Liberty Theatre

MichaelKilgore on October 9, 2021 at 2:01 pm

This must have been when it was renamed the Fox. Motion Picture Herald, Jan. 19, 1952: “Several (Kansas City) Film Row people went to Fort Scott, Kansas, for the opening of the Fox Midwest theatre there.”

Joe Vogel on September 30, 2014 at 3:49 pm

The July 2, 1919, issue of The Fort Scott Tribune told of the successful opening of the new Liberty Theatre the previous night. The June 30 issue of the paper had said that the new theater, owned by H. L. Stout, had taken nearly a year to complete due to the difficulty of obtaining structural steel during and after the war.

The Liberty occupied an 1889 commercial building that had been gutted and the interior completely rebuilt into an 800 seat theater with complete stage facilities. Mr. Stout’s intention was to operate the Liberty primarily as a movie house, but he had also arranged to present stage productions provided by the Klaw & Erlinger and Shubert syndicates.

THX11384EB on November 8, 2010 at 8:43 pm

I saw a ton of movies here during the eighties. A one time it was a single screen, after a fire in the building next door, in which the theater sustain some damage it opened as a twin. It had a small game room of to the side of the main entrance. Name any major movie during the eighties and its a safe bet I saw it here. The last time I was there in the late nineties the theater was in terrible shape. Whole rows of seating were missing, the projectors were constantly breaking down, and the place was in need of some major renovation.