Retro Theatre
215 N. Merrill Avenue,
Glendive,
MT
59330
215 N. Merrill Avenue,
Glendive,
MT
59330
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Previous Names: Rose Theatre
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The Rose Theatre is a single screen theatre serving a county of close to 5,000 residents since at least 1941. The theatre featured two first run attractions per evening with seperate admission to each, they had matinees on weekends. In 2014 it dropped movies in favour of live performances and is known as the Retro Theatre. It was closed in 2017.
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As noted above, the theater’s address needs to be updated. This page shows some connection between a bowling alley on W. Towne and the theater on N. Merrill:
http://www.midrivers.com/~jobowler/
From the 1940s a photo postcard image of Main Street, the Jordan Hotel and the Rose Theatre in Glendive.
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The partnership of Winkes and Suckstoff had recently sold the Rose Theatre at Glendive, Montana, to Jack Gavan, according to an item in the “Theatre Changes” column of the July 15, 1929, issue of The Film Daily.
The former Rose Theatre is no longer a movie house, but a live performance venue called the Retro Theatre. This brief item about the conversion, posted on the web site of the Glendive Ranger-Review, is dated July 10, 2014, and says that the theater was built in 1918. The conversion project included uncovering the upper part of the building’s original facade.
1957 photo as the Rose Theatre added courtesy of the AmeriCar The Beautiful Facebook page.
Now for sale according to their Facebook page. Pictures show the interior to be pretty much complete.
This closed in 2017 and is for sale.
Looking at the photos of the Isis Theatre in Glendive it would appear that the Rose was located only one or two buildings further south.
Uploaded a portion of an ad from the Golden Valley News of December 30, 1943 for the Rose and Uptown Theatres. Mention of these theatres occur frequently in local Obituaries as the site of meeting of future spouses or a place of work. Joe Moore operated the Rose and Uptown in 1935. In the 1940s these theatres and the Skylark Drive-In were operated by Lewis Moore.