Sun Theatre
7106 Prospect Avenue,
Kansas City,
MO
64132
7106 Prospect Avenue,
Kansas City,
MO
64132
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The Sun opened in 1941 seating 710. Robert Boller of the Boller Brothers was the architect. It was done in Art Deco style. The Sun was located in the Forest Hills neighborhood on Prospect at East Gregory. The Sun was a popular neighborhood theatre but the TV era took its toll on many of the neighborhood theatres. The Sun finally gave in and closed in 1963.
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Chuck Van Bibber
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Does this theater building still exist, or did Bruce Watkins freeway take it out?
Not sure about the building still existing but Prospect is a block over from the Bruce Watkins.
The SUN existed in the 1930’s. We lived nearby on South Benten from 1928 to 1937, and I recall going to Saturday afternoon matinees there. Sometime in that period, there was a dispute between union and non-union projectionists, and the booth, above the entrance on Prosopect, was dynamited during the night.
I used to go to the Sun a lot when we lived at 67th and Chestnut. (I often also rode the bus down to 39th and went to the Oak Park, but I never told my parents that).
There was a drive-in restaurant (an Allens?) on the NE corner, a school on the NW corner, and a drug store or hardware store directly across the street.
And when you drive down that part of the freeway today, Prospect is on one side and Chestnut on the other.
Believe it or not the old Sun theater is now a church. Kansas City is known for turning its old theaters into churches.
Thank God for churches. :lol:
On the northeast corner today there is a Church’s Chicken. Before that there was a Sherman’s barbeque restaurant(very good barbeque,too). I went to Blenheim School on the nw corner in the third grade. Bruce Watkins freeway is a block east.
The Sun Theater was also known as the Mayfield Theater.