Sun Theater
411 9th Street,
Beaver City,
NE
68926
411 9th Street,
Beaver City,
NE
68926
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Previous Names: Oriental Theater
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The Oriental Theater sat on the west side of the square in Beaver City, Nebraska, and was owned by the locally prominent Theobald family. The theatre opened by 1935. In 1946 it was renamed Sun Theater. It was closed in mid-1970s.
It was demolished in 1994. The site is now occupied by the local office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Address: 411 9th Street, Beaver City, NE 68926 The Sun Theatre opened in 1946.
I suspect the dates are wrong. The theater is shown on the 1936 map. It was a conversion of a small storefront built sometime between 1899 and 1909. The 1922 map shows the post office there. I think it opened in 1935 or 1936 as the Oriental. It was likely just renamed in 1946. It had 250 seats through at least 1949.
It was almost certainly a 1935 opening for the Oriental. A 1940 “Who’s Who” biography for John Jacob Metzger says that he owned a half interest in the Palace Theatre at Syracuse, Nebraska, from 1922 to 1936, and that he was owner and operator of the Oriental Theatre in Beaver City from 1935. Metzger still operated the Oriental at least as late as 1942, when they were mentioned in the February 4 issue of Variety. I’ve found references to the Theobald family in Beaver City, but none in connection to theater operation. Perhaps they were the landlords.