Ritz Theatre
200 N. Sturgeon Street,
Montgomery City,
MO
63361
200 N. Sturgeon Street,
Montgomery City,
MO
63361
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The Opera House was showing silent films by 1917. The name was changed to the Ritz Theatre in 1932. The theatre seated 350 and was closed on May 28, 1960.
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The opera house is already shown with film equipment on the 1917 Sanborn. The projection was from an iron-clad wooden box at the rear of the second floor building, with stage and scenery on the front (Sturgeon St) side. Ground floor occupants were a hardware store on the north side, and the post office on the south. The lot is empty on the 1909 map, and current usage is a Masonic Lodge and a laundromat.
The address is wrong. Should be 200-202. 209 is a narrow one-story building, which was used as stores, and is now a restaurant.
“The Ritz Theatre, owned by Otto Ingwersen, ceased operations after its show the night of May 28. It is unknown when the theatre will resume.” — Boxoffice, June 13, 1960