Palace Theatre
238 S. Main Street,
Jonesboro,
AR
72401
238 S. Main Street,
Jonesboro,
AR
72401
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And reopened as Palace on September 30th, 1927. Grand opening ad posted.
Renamed Grand on March 19th, 1910.
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The Airdome theatre opened on May 4th, 1909 and is rebuilt with walls and roof and renemad Grand on March 19th as the management relocates here.
Airdome grand opening ad posted.
The venue opened in 1911 as the Airdrome. After a year off, Will Mack and Geroge Bleck added a roof and solid walls creating the Grand Theatre. In 1927, Mack closed the Grand and took over the Strand Theatre with the neighboring Harwood’s Confectionery, the de facto concessionaire for the Grand, moving to the Strand Building.
Preston Hatcher and G.W. Pitts took on the former Airdrome turned Grand operating it as the Palace Theatre in 1927. It appears that the building was condemned. Malco Theatres, operators of the Liberty and Strand, took on the venue in in 1938 and, transformed it into an art deco venue, the Palace Theatre. The Palace launched on March 3, 1938 with “Topper Takes a Trip.” It ended on April 11, 1957 with Abbott and Costello in “Dance with Me, Henry!” Many of the theater elements were then carried over to the Liberty Theatre while crews converted the Palace Theatre into the Palace Bowling Lanes.
Address was 238 S. Main Street. Still standing. (218 was the State/Liberty/Princess down the street.)