Jefferson Theatre
203 W. Ninth Street,
Coffeyville,
KS
67337
203 W. Ninth Street,
Coffeyville,
KS
67337
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The Jefferson Theatre closed on June 18, 1924 disappointing the Jefferson Sweet Shoppe next door - the venue’s de facto concessionaire. It had a ragtag programatic approach by that point - some films, some live events, and a lot of down time. The building was gutted by fire on September 5, 1924. The Sweet Shoppe - which conducted business under different operators - reopened at 405 West 8th Street. The walls of the Jefferson Building held on as best they could.
On November 5, 1924, a strong windstorm knocked over some of the remains of the Jefferson Building causing it to be razed two days later. As for the veracity of it resuming operations of a movie theater in 1929, call me incredibly dubious.
The October 1, 1938 issue of Boxoffice published this item “from the Boxoffice files,” dated September 23, 1924: “Mark C. Read has taken over the Jefferson at Coffeyville, Kas., which he will convert from a road show to an exclusive motion picture house.” (I originally posted this comment with a typo reading 1929 instead of 1924. It became a movie house in 1924. I’m sorry for any confusion this caused.)
Address is garbled in the AMPD listing. This was at 203-205 W 9th. The theater was still open in 1923. Later maps not available online, but this is now just one of the many surface parking lots in a blighted downtown.
The Jefferson Theatre was built in 1906 by opera house promoter George H. Johnston. John Eberson may have still been working with him at this time.