Uptown Theatre
1100 North Pine Street,
Rolla,
MO
65401
1100 North Pine Street,
Rolla,
MO
65401
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I just realized the Uptown got demolished. All the theaters in town were owned by the same company. When they were closed one at a time, they had deed restrictions placed on them to keep them from operating as movie theaters. This happened to the Ritz and also to the Uptown. I had inquired before the night club went in ad it wasn’t being sold as a movie theater.
It sucks honestly that we allow our historic building to be discarded and allow these restrictions to be placed on them.
Visited Rolla over the weekend and the building had just been torn down and the lot cleaned up(or so it seemed). A shame.
It went up for sale a few years ago while I was in college there. Had I been able to pull together the funds, it might still be a working theaters (instead of the night club with a sloped floor that it became…)
2009 photo of the marquee.
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This building & the neighboring one were recently acquired by the Missouri S&T Alumni Association. They plan to tear it down in order to build a new alumni center. We need your help! The building is structurally fine, and would be an undertaking to renovate it, but still cheaper than building a new one, and you can keep the cool art deco historical building. To show your support, and help us out: write/email Miner Alumni Association
107 Castleman Hall
400 W. 10th St.
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-4145
Tell them to be creative & re-use the existing structure!
Looks like the only theatre in Rollo is the Hollywood Forum Cinema, a four screen at 1101 E. 18th St. It is not listed on CT that I could find. I thought there would be more than four screens since Rolla is a college town.
I am really surprised that a church or something hasn’t gone in there, the building looks like it is great shape.
Here is a 2009 photo. The building looks vacant.
So I was a finger stroke off, at least I got three out of the four numbers right. Maybe Ken will fix that for me. LOL I think the movie title was “Michael V. Zoe Brcomes Emporer of Eastern Roman Empire”.
Chuck….When this theater opened in “1041”, what movie was playing? Sorry, I couldn’t resist. LOL
Since we now have the exact date, it can be changed to December 9, 1941.
The Uptown Theater opened December 9, 1941 with 1200 seats according to this ad.jpg).
Here is another photo of the bar from 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/ytzfcx
This is a 2007 photo of the former Uptown Theater which is now a bar & grill.
Photo of the Uptown Theatre.
http://snipurl.com/n180