Joylan Theatre

S. Prairie Street,
Bloomfield, MO 63825

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on December 28, 2024 at 8:13 pm

This was a different theater / building than the Gordon (sorry). It did open as the Bloomfield operating for 15 years from 1912 through January 21, 1927 under that name. On April 18, 1927, it was renamed under new operators, Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Baehl as the Joylan Theatre seating 300 patrons. They closed at the theater’s 15-year lease expiry that November.

New operators took on the venue still as the Joylan before skipping town late in December of 1927. The building at 401 S. Prairie has since been demolished. For the next ten plus years, the townspeople had to commute 7.5 miles to nearby Dexter, Missouri for films. That changed when the town got a movie theater under a variety of names operating in the sound era from 1938 to 1960. It has its own entry under its final operational name as the SEMO Theatre.

50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on May 30, 2020 at 5:31 pm

Mr. Marnell First Operated The Bloomfield Theatre Since Its Grand Opening On November 20th, 1912.