Rio Theatre
7204 W. 80th Street,
Overland Park,
KS
66204
7204 W. 80th Street,
Overland Park,
KS
66204
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Dickinson Theatres
Architects: Robert O. Boller
Firms: Boller Brothers
Functions: Movies (Foreign), Movies (Independent)
Styles: Art Deco
Previous Names: Overland Theatre, Kimo South Theatre, Theatre for Young America, Park Cinema
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
816.252.2463
Manager:
816.252.2463
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News About This Theater
This is a wonderful Art Deco restoration by a company that has restored many old theaters in the Kansas City area, and is restoring several more.
This theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places in February of 2005.
Contributed by
Mark Helmuth
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Recent comments (view all 12 comments)
Wow… here is an enterprising company that has taken FOUR lovely old movie palaces and restored them! Wait.. they did it in Kansas! … And the theaters are making money! Why can’t we do this on Hollywood Boulevard with those lovely and historic theaters that are boarded up in the “movie capitol of the world?”
The “FIne Arts Group” of Kansas deserves some serious credit for the great job on these grand venues! Bravo!
According to a March 10, 2005 article in the Kansas City Star, this theatre was just added to the National Register of Historic Places in February of this year. Also added was the Granada in Kansas City, KS another Boller Brothers & Fine Arts Group Theatre.
Congrats to the Fine Arts Group for a job well done!!!
In the 1950 edition of Film Daily Yearbook the Overland Theatre is listed with a seating capacity of 600.
Here is a recent closeup of the marquee:
http://tinyurl.com/7yzl7a
This theatre is on the cover of “Cinemental Journeys” by Mike and Vicki Walker.
Yes. The old Overland Theatre renamed the Kimo South. My first theatre manager job.
March 22nd, 1968 grand opening ad as Kimo South in photo section.
Tues. 6/4/74’s 8pm run of “Cinderella Liberty” was the swan song for the Kimo South. The stack ads the next day simply said “Closed” nest to the Kimo South logo. That left Dickinson with the Glenwood I & II, Festival, Prospect 4, Englewood, Dickinson, Shawnee Drive-In and Leawood Drive-In as its remaining screens in the metro.
Park Cinema should be added to Previous Names. Late `60s photo of Park Cinema marquee added credit Joe Shaneyfelt.
I have uploaded a photo of the Rio on the cover of the book “Cinemental Journeys”, almost 10 years after AMStar mentioned it in a comment above.