State Theater
104 W. Pine Street,
Columbus,
KS
66725
104 W. Pine Street,
Columbus,
KS
66725
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The State Theater is now home to a floor covering store.
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Ken McIntyre
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Boxoffice magazine reported in January 1946 that the State recently celebrated its sixth anniversary, so it would have opened in late 1939 or very early in 1940.
There is a 400 seat State Theater listed for Columbus, Kansas in 1940. In 1950 the State Theater is listed with 600 seats. Unless this theater received a major expansion at some point, the 1284 seat count given above seems a little excessive.
LM, I found a couple articles listing the seating at 600, I also found an article that said the State was remodeled in the early 70’s, and used as a restaurant and banquet center before being remodeled as a carpet store.
I also spotted that there was a Columbus Drive-in but couldn’t find anything on that. So the city had two theatres and one drive-in.
Chuck….Drive-ins.com shows two drive-ins for Columbus. The Columbus Drive-In and the Cherokee Drive-In 3. I don’t see either one listed on here.
LM, I couldn’t find it listed on here either. I stil have problems with the memory and a lot of the old sites that I had bookmarked are gone so it takes me a while to get things searched and completed. I appreciate the info on the Columbus Drive-In. If you find anything more on it submit it, I won’t feel bad I promise you.
I don’t even have an address for the Columbus Drive-In. Both the Columbus and the Cherokee were operating in 1964. In 1975 only the Cherokee is listed. By 1980, the Cherokee is gone and the Columbus is again listed. It’s possible that the Columbus closed and re-opened. I prefer to have an address or at least a street name and some sort of timeline when I add theaters. The Columbus will have to sit on the back burner until more information becomes available.
The State Theatre burned in June, 1947. It was rebuilt on the same site, plus the site of an adjacent bowling alley which had also been destroyed in the fire, and reopened on Christmas Day, 1947. The January 3, 1948, issue of Boxoffice reported that Robert Boller was the architect for the rebuilding project.