Pastime Theatre
909 15th Avenue,
East Moline,
IL
61244
909 15th Avenue,
East Moline,
IL
61244
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Of course the Majestic was also operating, and that’s missing, too.
We have another page for the Lyric Theatre with information that conflicts with the description above. It says the first location of the Lyric was on 6th Street and the second location, opened December 6, 1913, was on 7th Street. Could it be that this house on 15th Avenue only ever operated as the Pastime? And if the first Lyric was in operation before December of 1913, I can’t account for its absence from the AMPD.
This certainly could be the one. I think the first Majestic was a conversion. This block had lots of empty space on the 1912 map.
The Pastime is the only theater listed at East Moline in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. The Lyric Theatre is mentioned in the April 8, 1922 issue of The Moving Picture World. As Fifteenth Avenue used to be called First Avenue, and the Pastime/Lyric was in the 900 block, this item from the June, 1911 issue of Motography could be about this house: