Roxie Theatre

F.C. Parks and G.W. Lawson programmed films at Shelton’s Meisner Opera House (later Shelton Opera House) in the 1900’s and into 1911. The pair decided to launch a dedicated movie theatre called the Comet Theatre not far away launching March 22, 1911. In July, Lawson dedicated his time to the Gibbon Theatre, a movie theatre that opened in May of 1911 with Park taking on sole ownership of the Comet Theatre.

In 1918, Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Felps took on the theatre and on June 29, 1930 installed sound beginning with Will Rogers in “So This is London”. Mr. Felps passed and Mrs. Felps ran it until selling it to Mr. and Mrs. William N. Youngclas in 1936 who owned a number of small-town Nebraska theatres. Younglcas gave the venue a Streamlined Moderne style makeover and air conditioning changing its name to the Roxie Theatre.

The Roxie Theatre launched May 22, 1936 with Barbara Stanwyck in “Red Salute”. Within six months, Mrs. Youngclas died and the theatre was sold to E.L. Johnson and Son.

Harold S. Conroy and his wife took over the Roxie Theatre and he was also Shelton’s postmaster and fire department member for 41 years. The theatre was still in operation at the time of his death in 1966, some 55 years after the original theatre had opened.

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