Tackett Theatre
132 W. Eighth Street,
Coffeyville,
KS
67337
132 W. Eighth Street,
Coffeyville,
KS
67337
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The first Tackett Theatre was located at the southeast corner of W. Seventh Street and S. Maple Street. This second Tackett Theatre in Coffeyville is one of about 200 theatres listed in a advertisement for Reproduco Pipe Organs. Coffeyville’s still extant Midlands Theatre was called the New Tackett Theatre when it opened in 1928, making this the old Tackett Theatre, which in the 1926 edition of Film Daily Yearbook has a seating capacity of 1,000.
The Tackett Theatre was operated by Fox Midwest Theatres in the early-1940’s, and was still operating in 1950 when it had a 887 seating capacity.
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William Dunklin
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The 1923 map shows a gas station on the SE corner, so this would have had to have been built as a very large theater, and then abandoned within 4 years. This location would have been an odd choice. Even before a lot of downtown became a wasteland, this was on the very edge of the business section. If it really was here (later maps are unavailable online), then the corner is occupied by a derelict car wash, which might date to the ‘70s.
Address is wrong. This was at 132 W 8th. There was an even older Tackett at the location listed, but all of the information appears to relate to the newer Tackett (and makes the Midland the THIRD Tackett). The theater was built sometime between 1913 and 1923 (probably after 1915, since it’s not listed in the 1914-15 AMPD). It was a large three story brick building. This corner is now a parking lot next to some really awful 1970s retail buildings.
A September 7, 1918 Moving Picture World item (with typo) says “Coffeyville, Kans.—The Taskett theatre is nearing completion and will be opened early this fall.” In late 1923, the November 24 MPW noted that among recent visitors to the film exchanges in Kansas City “John Tackett, Tackett Theatre, Coffeyville, Kas.” This theater was on the site of an airdome built by John Tackett in 1910, reported in the July 9 MPW that year. I would imagine that the airdome was meant to be a summer location for the first Tackett Theatre at 7th and Maple.