Lyric Theatre
406 Central Avenue,
Hot Springs,
AR
71901
406 Central Avenue,
Hot Springs,
AR
71901
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This theatre was located in the northern portion of the old United States Hotel, which was a large three story brick structure with a tin front, which extended from this address all the way down to the current 416.
The theatre first appears as a vaudeville house on the 1908 map. At this point, the hotel was defunct, and there were furnished rooms on the upper stories, while the southern half still operated as the Palace Hotel.
By 1915, a ‘Motion Picture Theatre’ is shown, presumably with the same name, and the upper stories are occupied by the Gayoso Hotel. The entire hotel structure is long gone. Judging by the architecture of the replacement buildings, it was likely demolished by the early-1920’s.
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Seth Gaines
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While a movie house called the Lyric Theatre was listed at Hot Springs in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, it was located at 624 Central Avenue. No theaters were listed at 406 Central, though several were listed without addresses. There were houses called the Central and the New Central, so this house might have been one or the other of those.
It’s odd that the name would have been moved. 622-624 was a 5 and dime on the 1915 map, which is from June. The building is also stores on the 1908 map.
This can’t have been the Central, since that seems to have operated well into the ‘30s, at which point this building was gone.