Rainbow Theatre

107 North Broadway,
St. Louis, MO 63102

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on November 9, 2024 at 8:11 pm

George Angelich’s Rainbow Theater was located in a new-build venue leased by the St. Louis Electric Company in the Central Business District of St. Louis in 1911. The parade of better movie palaces had passed the Rainbow by in the early 1920s. But the theater chugged along with lesser film titles.

Surprisingly, on November 28, 1930, it converted to sound making it one of the last downtown movie theaters to convert to talkies with the film, “White Cargo” as the New Rainbow Theatre. Playing exploitation and fight films, the Rainbow disappeared without a pot of gold in 1933. It was converted to two spaces one for a tavern / lunch room and one for a retail store. After just 25 years, the entire building was demolished again in 1937.

JAlex
JAlex on August 23, 2016 at 2:12 pm

Research has shown years of operation were 1911 to 1932.