Pastime Theatre
909 15th Avenue,
East Moline,
IL
61244
909 15th Avenue,
East Moline,
IL
61244
No one has favorited this theater yet
This theatre appears on the 1912 Sanborn in a simple one story brick commercial building. Due to a lack of earlier maps, it’s unclear whether this was a converted storefront, or a purpose built structure. It was listed in the 1914-1915 edition of American Motion Picture Directory. The 1950 map shows it in use as an auto repair shop. The building today is in decent shape, and used as a barber shop.
Note that while the theatre was operating, 15th Avenue was known as 1st Avenue.
Contributed by
Seth Gaines
Want to be emailed when a new comment is posted about this theater?
Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater.
Recent comments (view all 4 comments)
The Pastime is the only theater listed at East Moline in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. The Lyric Theatre is mentioned in the April 8, 1922 issue of The Moving Picture World. As Fifteenth Avenue used to be called First Avenue, and the Pastime/Lyric was in the 900 block, this item from the June, 1911 issue of Motography could be about this house:
This certainly could be the one. I think the first Majestic was a conversion. This block had lots of empty space on the 1912 map.
We have another page for the Lyric Theatre with information that conflicts with the description above. It says the first location of the Lyric was on 6th Street and the second location, opened December 6, 1913, was on 7th Street. Could it be that this house on 15th Avenue only ever operated as the Pastime? And if the first Lyric was in operation before December of 1913, I can’t account for its absence from the AMPD.
Of course the Majestic was also operating, and that’s missing, too.