Crescent Theatre

Photos and additional history added credit W A Rankin Memorial Library – Neodesha, KS “From the files of Joe Allen: Neodesha, Kansas. Picture 1: On the northwest corner of Fourth and Main in Neodesha, Kansas, 1916 was the Crescent Theatre owned by Cliff and Willis Robinson. It was the leading theatre in it’s time, down the street 1 ½ blocks on Main was the Princess Theatre, owned by Doc Pingrey and Fred Williams. Both movie houses packed in the crowds on Saturday afternoons. Picture 2: The recessed front of the Crescent Theatre in the old Hubbell Brothers building at Fourth and Main, as it appeared at the end of the horse and buggy era, 1915. Cliff and Willis Robinson sold out in 1919 to Ed C Allen, who sold it to G. E. Klock in 1926. Klock also bought the Princess Theatre which was built 1912. Mr. Klock closed the Crescent Theatre in 1926.”