Randolph Music Theater
302 N. Marr Street,
Pocahontas,
AR
72455
302 N. Marr Street,
Pocahontas,
AR
72455
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Randolph Music Theater (Official)
Additional Info
Functions: Live Music Venue
Styles: Streamline Moderne
Previous Names: Imperial Theatre, Imperial Dinner Theatre
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
870892.523.2355
Manager:
870892.378.0024
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The Streamline Moderne style Imperial Theatre opened in 1941, just prior to the US entry into World War II. The first movie to play there was “Blues in the Night”. The Imperial Theatre was the first public building in Pocahontas to be air-conditioned, the first building to use glazed brick (on the facade) and the first with neon lights (on its marquee). The Imperial Theatre closed in the mid-1970’s and was afterward used as an indoor archery range.
In 1994, the Studio for the Arts, a non-profit group, purchased the long-vacant former theater and gutted it, and it was renovated as the Imperial Dinner Theatre.
The Studio for the Arts raised funds to build a larger arts venue and dinner theater in town and vacated the Imperial Dinner Theatre in 2004. It now operates as the Randolph Music Theater.
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I’m not going to figure out which theater this was, but it’s a funny little story from May 1961:
POCAHONTAS. Ark. (AP)â€"“It was black and it was coming at me, so I jumped in that pickup truck and took off.” Ed Tyler, an employee of a drive-in theater here, literally took off Sunday. A windstormâ€"or tornado, as he called it, picked up the truck and spun it around several times before setting it down. “I was hanging onto the steering wheel with my feet out the doorâ€, Tyler said "I thought I was a gonerâ€. He wasn’t hurt. The storm damaged the theater but apparently hit nothing else.
I figured the town, just not the name of the theater. You may have answered the question.
I think you’re pointing out the misspelling at the top of the page. I concur.
No, the Imperial is the only theater listed in Pocahontas, AR. I try not to add too many drive-ins as management prefers an emphasis on indoor theaters.