Olive Theater
3560 Olive Street,
St. Louis,
MO
63103
3560 Olive Street,
St. Louis,
MO
63103
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This might have been a precursor to the Olive Theatre at 4023 Olive Street, opened in 1911, and listed at CT as the Congress Theatre.
Thanks for that reasearch! We’ll call it the Olive for now.
Gould’s 1909 St. Louis Directory lists under the heading “Amusement Companies” 3560 Olive Street as the location of The Olive (Olive The, since it’s alphabetical by last name) with no indication of what sort of amusement it might provide, though if the same year’s Sanborn map says it was movies, it was probably movies. Most of the outfits listed under the category by Gould’s are not designated as theaters, but are often just names, such as “Propotnick Otto” at 1526 S. Broadway, and “Schmitt Christ” at 4500 S. Compton Av. Puzzling.
The Grand Avenue Hotel was built in 1885. In 1909, part of it was slated to be demolished to make way for the new Princess Theatre (listed at CT as Loews Mid-City Theatre.) The Princess, originally a vaudeville house, opened in 1910, but I don’t think the part of the hotel building along Olive Street had been razed for it, or at least not all of it was razed. Early photos of the Princess show part of the old hotel building still standing next door at the Olive street corner.