Rex Theatre
100 N. Davis Street,
Hamilton,
MO
64644
100 N. Davis Street,
Hamilton,
MO
64644
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The Rex Theatre was opened on March 4, 1914. The 1916 Sanborn shows a theatre operating in the southern storefront of a three-part commercial block with a lodge hall upstairs. The space is vacant on the 1909 map, and the structure appears as early as the 1893 map. Like most storefront theatres, it probably didn’t last long. and it closed on November 13, 1922. It reverted back to retail use, and the space is currently a restaurant.
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Seth Gaines
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This corner lot was home to the Rex Theatre which opened March 4, 1914 with Mutual movies. Mrs. Hugh McAfee of the Rex also had control of the Airdrome. She had the Airdrome torn down after five seasons of summer usage selling the lumber to H.D. Gillet who repurposed the lumber in sheds.
The management of the Rex’s only remaining local competitor, the Auditorium Theatre, bought out the competition not long after the Rex’s final November 15, 1922 showing of “The Call of Home.” Claude McBray, operator of the Auditorium, even took out the equipment moving it to Polo, Mo. to create a new theater there. This venue became home to the Gilbert Brothers store and later was a package store and grocer.