Per their website it is now open as an event space. As of 6/21/2018 there are shows on the schedule including a small independent movie. The website says Wild Carrot in small print, but the marquee still very much says Shaw. By any name, I’m glad to see it open and I hope it thrives.
It is indeed an odd name, but it’s a neighborhood of small groceries, and garden stores. And a quite large and old botanical garden and an even larger walking park whose mutual founder gave the street (and half of everything nearby) its name. It’s a very planty neighborhood, by any measure. And increasingly hip in a sort of granola way. Nice place, actually. And coming up.
In the renderings it still shows the Shaw name on the marquee, but the website is Wild Carrot. I’m not quite sure what to think, but I’m glad to see what they’re doing by any name. I wish I knew what it had looked like when it was a movie house. At 1140 and with a two story lobby it would have been just big enough to be potentially interesting. Odds are against it, but you never know. Anyway, I wish them luck.
This theatre is presently under restoration as an events space called “Wild Carrot.” It is slated to open spring of 2018. The interior appears to be a gut rehab, assuming there was anything left, but it will once again be a theatre of sorts.
The name is, I believe, a reference to the organization’s origins. It began as a film series without a permanent home specializing in foreign and classic films. Most films were shown at the Blue Note. Eventually a few were also shown at the Missouri Theatre, beginning a lengthy collaboration. It was perhaps several years later that they opened their own cinema at it’s first location on 10th Street, and another five to ten years before they moved to their current location.
This building was probably last in use as a jewelery store called Best of the West in the early ‘90s. All structures on the west side of the relevant block have been demolished and replaced over the last thirty years with a city parking garage and an annex to city hall.
Per their website it is now open as an event space. As of 6/21/2018 there are shows on the schedule including a small independent movie. The website says Wild Carrot in small print, but the marquee still very much says Shaw. By any name, I’m glad to see it open and I hope it thrives.
It is indeed an odd name, but it’s a neighborhood of small groceries, and garden stores. And a quite large and old botanical garden and an even larger walking park whose mutual founder gave the street (and half of everything nearby) its name. It’s a very planty neighborhood, by any measure. And increasingly hip in a sort of granola way. Nice place, actually. And coming up.
In the renderings it still shows the Shaw name on the marquee, but the website is Wild Carrot. I’m not quite sure what to think, but I’m glad to see what they’re doing by any name. I wish I knew what it had looked like when it was a movie house. At 1140 and with a two story lobby it would have been just big enough to be potentially interesting. Odds are against it, but you never know. Anyway, I wish them luck.
This theatre is presently under restoration as an events space called “Wild Carrot.” It is slated to open spring of 2018. The interior appears to be a gut rehab, assuming there was anything left, but it will once again be a theatre of sorts.
Their website is below.
https://www.wildcarrotstl.com/home
The name is, I believe, a reference to the organization’s origins. It began as a film series without a permanent home specializing in foreign and classic films. Most films were shown at the Blue Note. Eventually a few were also shown at the Missouri Theatre, beginning a lengthy collaboration. It was perhaps several years later that they opened their own cinema at it’s first location on 10th Street, and another five to ten years before they moved to their current location.
This building was probably last in use as a jewelery store called Best of the West in the early ‘90s. All structures on the west side of the relevant block have been demolished and replaced over the last thirty years with a city parking garage and an annex to city hall.