According to local newspaper ads from the mid-50s when the Millikin was being used as a church, a better address for it would be 1707 N. Boonville. That’s a half block south of Commercial Street on the west side of Boonville. There’s a parking lot there now according to Google Earth.
Boxoffice, 1969.
According to local newspaper ads from the mid-50s when the Millikin was being used as a church, a better address for it would be 1707 N. Boonville. That’s a half block south of Commercial Street on the west side of Boonville. There’s a parking lot there now according to Google Earth.
Boxoffice, 4/15/74.
From 1948.
The address given in the Valley View’s ads is “95th and Antioch.”
Opening night ad, 9/4/48.
After the fire.
Showing fire damage to the screen tunnel.
After closing.
Taken in 1989, after the fire.
The last ad.
February 24, 1949.
Ticket booth.
You can see the screen thru the window.
Concessions.
Remains of the booth.
Closed for 40 years.
During its years as a church a large addition was made to the rear of the building.
The last ad, on 3/10/91. I went to see “Misery” that night.
Saw “Land That Time Forgot” there in 1974.
Taken 1992.
Checking the local newspaper ads, it closed 10/11/59. Earlier that year, the screen was damaged in a windstorm which might have led to its closure.
The sign, just after the place closed in 1988.
After it closed as a theater some remodeling was done converting the entry for other purposes.
In the 70s it played the top pictures, but by the 80s not so much. It’s last days were as a bargain theater.