Rivoli Theater
1814 Stone Street,
Falls City,
NE
68355
1814 Stone Street,
Falls City,
NE
68355
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The Rivoli Theater was opened on March 21, 1928 with William Haines in “West Point”. It was equipped with a Wurlitzer organ which was opened by organist Sterling Grabin. As late as August 1983, the Rivoli Theater was open and showing movies. Situated between a large hotel on one side and the not unusual barber shop on the other it had a huge red vertical sign that towered well above the top of the building.
"Rivoli" was spelled out in white letters accented with neon. A large red marquee sheltered the entrance. The theatre stood vacant by 2008 when the marquee and vertical sign had been removed from the building.
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A 1983 view of the Rivoli Theater in Falls City.
The Rivoli Theatre dates back to at least 1927 when it seated 675. The building is still standing minus the marquee and vertical, but vacant.
A. J. Weaver announced the new theatre in 1925 as Falls City new courthouse and new Hotel Weaver were completed. The two-story brick and reinforced concrete theatre cost $75,000 for Blaine Cook’s Cook Theatre Circuit. It was one of two Rivoli Theatres for the Circuit scheduled to open in 1926 along with the Beatrice location. During construction, George Monroe took over the Cook Circuit and the Rivoli launched in 1927.
Sign and marquee gone, building is vacant.
The actual opening date is March 21, 1928 with William Haines in “West Point” along with a few unnamed short subjects and a Wurlitzer Organ performance by Sterling Grabin. Glen Carver was the original manager.