Pastime Theatre
110 S. Main Street,
Medicine Lodge,
KS
67104
110 S. Main Street,
Medicine Lodge,
KS
67104
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The original Pastime Theatre was opened by 1911 at 106 S. Main Street. It has since been demolished. This Pastime Theatre at 110 S. Main Street was opened in 1927 when it had 400-seats. The 1950 Film Daily Year Book included the Pastime Theatre in Medicine Lodge, Main Street, 353 seats.
The Pastime Theatre advertised, along with the Pageant Drive-In, in the 1953 Medicine Lodge High School yearbook, the Medicinian. The Pastime Theatre was closed in 1982.
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A history of Medicine Lodge’s Lincoln Library says that a fund raiser for construction of their original building was held in 1911 at the Pastime Theater, 106 S. Main Street. The house was then owned by one Oscar T. Thom.
However, this page from the Kansas Historical Society gives the Pastime’s address as 110 S. Main and its construction date as 1927. The building there actually looks older, so I suspect it might simply have been remodeled for theatrical use in 1927. The Pastime’s original building, at 106, has been demolished, but the 1927 location is still standing, though currently appears to be vacant, and has been significantly altered.
A Facebook page titled Pastime Inc, Indoor Theatre Restoration Project has existed since 2014, but has not been updated since August, 2019, so I suspect the project is moribund. Most of the posts concern fundraising activities, but a few are about the theater, including scans of a couple of monthly programs published in the 1950s. One post says the house closed in 1982. The last owner was named Owen “Frosty” Sill.