Theatre

406 Malvern Avenue,
Hot Springs, AR 71901

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on April 3, 2023 at 1:38 pm

It turns out there was indeed a fire at Hot Springs in 1913, and it wiped out much of Malvern Avenue. It looks like it took out a couple dozen square blocks of the town. The Pekin probably only lasted about a year. It would have been pretty easy to convert a small movie house into a funeral parlor.

SethG
SethG on April 3, 2023 at 5:31 am

420 on the 1915 map is an undertaker. There is no 420 on the 1908 map. Almost all the buildings are different, which makes me think there was a serious fire, or perhaps a tornado. In 1915, the building that is in the space which would have been 420 in 1908 is 424, and is a restaurant with a boarding house or SRO above.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on April 2, 2023 at 6:25 pm

The 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory lists a house in the 400 block of Malvern Avenue, but it was at 420. It was called the Pekin Theatre.