Glen Rogers Theatre
Main Street,
Glen Rogers,
WV
25848
Main Street,
Glen Rogers,
WV
25848
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The coal boom town of Glen Rogers was constructed by the Raleigh-Wyoming Mining Company in 1918 named after the man who created the railroad that took the town’s first car of coal outward in 1922. J.A. Smith operated the local movie theatre which had two homes. The first was in the silent era which was wired for sound but burned down on December 26, 1944.
The second, the Glen Rogers Theatre, was a 250-seat auditorium in the city’s recreation hall built to replace the first venue in 1944 by the Stephen Lang Circuit. Lang’s Glen Rogers Theatre operated into 1960 though just one day a week in its final two years as the coal mining industry downtrended. The coal mine closed in 1960 and the coal company there declared bankruptcy taking down most of the city and the theatre. The town remains ostensibly a ghost town. Just the frame of the building housing the second Glen Rogers Theatre was still standing in the 21st Century.
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The shared ad for the Glen Rogers also shows a Beaver “Theatre”. I was able to track down a Beaver “Theater” not that far away, incorrectly identified as being in Beckley. I have requested that the information be corrected.