Majestic Theatre
131 Fremont Street,
Las Vegas,
NV
89101
131 Fremont Street,
Las Vegas,
NV
89101
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The town’s only indoor movie theatre after the fire at the Overland Hotel was the Majestic Theatre on the south side of Fremont Street, just west of 2nd Street. During the summer, movies were shown at the Airdome outdoor theatre on the northeast corner of 3rd Street and Fremont Street. When it rained, patrons would help the projectionist carry the equipment back to the Majestic Theatre.
It was listed in the Film Daily Yearbook of 1928 as seating 400.
Today the site of the Majestic Theatre is part of the Neolopolis Shopping Center.
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According to the Google aerial photo in 2022, the theatre is demolished - the entire block is now the Neonopolis shopping center.
I see a newspaper ad for the Majestic in April 1911. Fifteen cents admission for adults, 12 cents for children. (Las Vegas Age newspaper)
A May 1911 article in Las Vegas Age says: “The Majestic enjoys the decided advantage of being well above the dirt and dust of the street and being airy and well-ventilated. The high ceiling and numerous windows pouring in their flood of fresh air aided by electric fans makes the Majestic the coolest, the airiest resort possible for the summer months.”
The article further says that the theater regularly alternated between motion pictures and vaudeville.
This opened in 1912 as the replacement of the Las Vegas Opera House nearby on 25 Fremont Street, which launched on February 12, 1908. William Squires was the last operator of the original opera house who left the long-forgotten Isis Theatre in 1911 following that theater’s closure. Squires operated the theater until the Las Vegas Opera House was destroyed by a fire on May 26, 1912.
A history of Nevada published in 1918 has a bit of information about the Opera House, the first location of the Majestic Theatre: “The Opera House block was built during the summer of 1907 on the corner of First and Fremont streets. Many remember that the freshly laid walls of this building, being unsupported by sufficient bracing, were partly thrown down by a severe windstorm which came up unexpectedly one night. However the damage was repaired and the building was long the principal structure of the town, the large hall being used for all public meetings and entertainments as well as by various lodges and for a time by the Majestic moving picture theatre. The building was finally purchased by M. C. Thomas and used exclusively by the Thomas Department store until it was destroyed by fire in May, 1912.”