Fox Theatre
157 Public Square,
Springfield,
MO
65806
157 Public Square,
Springfield,
MO
65806
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I worked at the old Fox all through high school , right up until it closed . We had such fun showing the midnight movies on weekends and the summer parks program movies matinees for kids . The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pink Floyd The Wall were always a trip !
Other pictures of the Fox Theatre, when it was the Electric, can be found at:
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Here is a 1949 photo of fire damage –
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Worked here too. God that hideously Green and White color scheme thruout the theatre??????? And — I don’t think there was a square wall in that lobby at all. I’ll never forget the day I threw out 20 years of press material that George Hunter had saved. OMG! Tyndall Lewis almost kicked my butt up between my ears LOL.
The theater was originally called the Electric Theater. It caught fire and was reopened as the Fox theater after repairs. It was owned by Mann theaters before it was Dickinson. I worked there from 1980 until 1982. One of the last first run movies we played was “The Fox and the Hound”. It was the only movie where we opened the balcony and actually filled the auditorium to over 1,000 customers. There was a large mural painted in the hallway leading into the auditorium that depicted the history of Springfield.
Here is a recent photo of the church entrance.
Again, a small correction. The Fox was still showing movies when I worked for Dickinson Theatres, the last theatre owners before it became a church, up til about 1982. It was last operated as a “Dollar” house by Dickinson. The last movie I went to there was “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at a midnite show in 1981.
The Fox Theater is now being used as a chuch.