Uptown Theater
3700 Broadway,
Kansas City,
MO
64111
3700 Broadway,
Kansas City,
MO
64111
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Spotlighted in this 1954 trade article: boxoffice
The organ that was installed , a Robert Morton 3m/13r has been installed in a suburb of St. Louis, MO and has grown to a 3m/36r
since the late 1960’s
Very Uptown kind of theatre,great pictures.
From the J.K. Redmond Photo Archives come these vintage images of the Uptown Theatre -
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Here is a July 2009 photo.
Oops! Wrong Uptown!
I am related to KATZ of Balaban & Katz. My late mom and her cousin used to get into all the b&K theatres for free as kids!
What a beautiful theatre!
1988 Photo
What a fabulous-looking theatre! Hope it stays.
This is a February 2009 photo.
I’m John Gladeau, President of the Old Hyde Park Neighborhood Association. I would like to correct a statement made by someone who misrepresents themselves on this site as “the truth”. I have never said anything derogatory about Larry Sells. He and the redevelopment group he is associated with did an outstanding job restoring the Uptown theater. I consider Larry to be a friend and find it offensive that someone would assert that I would publically or privately make such an unsavory comment about him. Furthermore, as a community leader I would never use profanity in any media interview regardless of the issue at hand. I suspect the person who posted the comment is the same cowardly individual who has been posting things all over the internet to defame my character and the character of others. He needs to find better things to do with his time.
Uptown Theater in June of 2008.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979
Uptown Building and Theatre (added 1979 – Building – #79001374)
Also known as The Uptown, Uptown Theatre Building
3700—3712 Broadway, Kansas City
Historic Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Eberson,John, Gornall,Robert
Architectural Style: Renaissance
Area of Significance: Performing Arts, Invention, Social History, Art, Commerce
Period of Significance: 1925-1949
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Recreation And Culture
Historic Sub-function: Theater
Current Function: Commerce/Trade, Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function: Music Facility, Specialty Store
A few November 10th 2007 images I shot of the colorful and ornate UPTOWN THEATER.
www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/1977133326
www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/1977128638
www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/1977122468
This is a recent view of the Uptown at night.
I went to a concert here last night and was impressed by this great old palace. They did a good job with the renovation but the new paint scheme is a little loud and garish. I’m very happy it’s still around though. It’s a great place to see a show, even if it’s not movies.
Here is a 24 page preview of a dissertation on the Uptown and other KC theaters;
http://tinyurl.com/2kokmq
This is a 5/18/2001 article about the Uptown Theater.
“Uptown Theater showing appeal after its long-delayed premiere.
Kansas City Business Journal
Author: DAVIS, JIM
Larry Sells said he’s running out of office space to lease in the Uptown Theater building in midtown Kansas City. And it’s about time.
“It’s been slower than I had hoped,” Sells said of efforts to redevelop the 75-year-old structure at 3700 Broadway and the surrounding property.
Sells initially had hoped to finish refurbishing the building in mid-1996. He said the project was slowed by delays in securing tax increment financing. Bonds weren’t sold until 1998.
But he has made inroads since then. Sells' latest success was landing Weaver & Martin. In June, the accounting firm will move from 801 W. 47th St. on the Country Club Plaza into about 2,500 square feet in the Uptown.
The firm will join tenants that include Devine deFlon Yeager Inc., an architectural firm that moved in 1997; and TransDigital Screenworks, a film production company that in January occupied the Uptown’s 40-seat screening room.
Christopher Klinzman, a partner with TransDigital, said the digital projection system has a modular design that allows it to be recofigured for a variety of purposes in different locations.
In the Valentine Shopping Center, immediately north of the Uptown Theater, Sells has leased about 7,000 square feet to Dollar General Store, a discount chain with more than 30 Kansas City-area locations.
Construction on the space, formerly occupied by Godfather’s Pizza and Payless Shoe source, will begin next week. Sells said he expects the store to open in about four months. It will serve neighboring residents, some of whom don’t drive, and fill a void that opened about a year and a half ago, when Eckerd Drugs left for a new store at 3902 Main St.
Central Bank of Kansas City opened a branch in the center in January 2000. The office was breaking even by February of this year, five months ahead of schedule, CEO Bill Dana said.
He said the branch serves customers who had been without a nearby bank since the former Broadway National Bank closed. Although deposits have trailed projections; Dana said, the number of accounts is greater than had been anticipated.
About 22,000 square feet remain available in the shopping center, anchored by Marsh’s Apple Market supermarket. Eckerd had used almost one-third of the vacant space.
Last week, Sells planted flowers at the center to improve its appearance. But he acknowledges still having problems with unavory characters lingering in the parking lot.
Sells remains optimistic. A fourth banquet area is opening in the theater to serve groups using the building for receptions. The space also is attracting groups such as the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Sprint Corp".
Here is another recent photo of the Uptown Theater.
I work at the Uptown Theater and if you want any new pictures go to www.uptowntheater.com
The Uptown Theatre opened on January 7th, 1928.
Cinema Tour shows 2 lobby photos and several other exterior photos along with the ticket kios which I hope has not be altered or removed, but will wait for an official answer and hopefully a few auditorium photos showing how the atmospheric feel was changed.
I’m afraid if I were go inside this Eberson theatre that was once a grand atmospheric theatre and see it as it is today I would be sadly disappointed. Hope someone posts more recent interior photos.
Michael: One of the photos posted by Lost Memory shows the area that has no seats which looks very strang, imo and would look better if restored back to the original concept and as architect, John Eberson intended!