Electric Theatre
712 Edmond Street,
St. Joseph,
MO
64501
712 Edmond Street,
St. Joseph,
MO
64501
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The Electric Theatre was opened in 1915 with a mix of vaudeville and photo-plays in its programmes.
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KenRoe
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The Electric Theatre could not have been demolished in 1957, because Sen. Lyndon Johnson appeared at a rally there during the 1960 presidential campaign.
If I remember the Electric was still open up to 1959, my uncle worked at the Electric, Missouri and I think the Regal he ran the heat and air cond. I was always at the movies in one or the other theaters, I know it was still open in 1957 I was going to CB High School and it was still open. When I left St.Joe and returned to Calif. in 1959 it was still open. The last time I was in St.Joe the Missouri was open and being used for stage plays.
There are a few photos on this website:
http://tinyurl.com/ypuuoo
A Wurlitzer theater organ opus 462 style 160C was installed in the Electric Theater on 9/28/1921. Status: Repossessed by the manufacturer.
It was a DURWOOD-DUBINSKY BROS.Theatre.Played a movie there in"SIN-A-SCOPE called “HAPPY ANNIVERSARY”.
The photos on the page ken mc linked to above (and most prticularly this photo) show that the architectural style of the Electric Theatre was Italian Renaissance, at least on the exterior. I haven’t been able to find any interior photos, but that facade usd many elements suggestive of Brunelleschi’s Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence.
Dubinsky and eventually Durwood didn’t operate the Electric unil 1932
so many dead links on this site, makes me tear my hair out
I came across two items in the July 17, 1915, issue of The American Contractor. Both mention the Electric Theatre in St. Joseph, but they describe two different projects. One is a theater remodeling and the other a theater addition. The first is in the block the Electric Theatre was on, but the second item gives no location. I really don’t know what to make of them. I’ve had the impression that the Electric Theatre was newly built in 1915, but perhaps it was in a remodeled building. Here is the first item:
Here is the second item:Pictured in the right column of this 1929 trade article: Boxoffice