Empress Theater

a postcard view of the Empress Theater can be found at http://www.omaha.lib.ne.us/galleries/postcards/post300_015.jpg

A Wurlitzer theater organ opus 187 style 3 X was installed in the Empress Theater on 10/26/1918.

Address:

1516 Douglas Street
Omaha, NE 68102

The World Theatre was a block east of this block; it was on the same block as the Rialto. The new Union Pacific Headquarters building occupies that entire block now. The block where the Empress sat is a city-owned parking garage along Douglas Street; First National Bank's public space with fountains and sculptures are on the north side of the block along Dodge Street and east of the 40 story tower between 16th and 17th and Dodge and Douglas Street.

The World Theater was not on the same block as the Rialto. The World Theater sat across the street from the Rialto, on the northwest corner of 15th and Douglas. The Rialto was on the northeast corner. The Empress sat in the middle of the block with the World Theater, in part of the space later occupied by Woolworth's Department Store. The theater next to the Rialto was the Moon (later the Cooper).