Retina Theatre
2008 Market Street,
St. Louis,
MO
63103
2008 Market Street,
St. Louis,
MO
63103
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The Retina Theatre was opened by 1914. It was still listed as open in 1926. It seated 300 and is not listed in 1930. The site is now a restaurant.
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The Retina Theatre is the subject of a brief (but sadly unillustrated) article in the November 7, 1914, issue of Motion Picture News. The article praises the theater (rather fulsomely) and its owner, John Gentner, of having rescued its neighborhood and the benighted denizens thereof from vice and crime. The tale sounds as though it could have been drawn from the plot of one of the “uplifting” movies of the day, meant to convince the church ladies that the movies weren’t a tool of the devil after all.