Gayety Theater

189 W. 12th Street,
Kansas City, MO 64105

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SethG
SethG on October 4, 2025 at 11:38 am

I’ve added a Sanborn view from 1909, when the theater was apparently incomplete. It’s not listed in the 1914-15 AMPD. When were films first shown?

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on February 19, 2012 at 11:43 pm

A small photo of the Gayety Theatre can be seen here, in the March 11, 1916, issue of the trade journal Electrical Review. The brief article was about the theater’s electric sign.

The photo actually shows the side entrance to the theater’s gallery, on Wyandotte Street. Its main entrance was around the corner on 12th Street, as seen in this postcard view from before the electric sign was installed.

Here is a photo dated 1945, after the theater had converted from burlesque to movies and the enormous electric sign had been removed.

spectrum
spectrum on November 25, 2010 at 10:17 pm

None of the above links work.

mlind
mlind on July 18, 2005 at 4:22 pm

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mlind
mlind on February 15, 2005 at 6:36 pm

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