Meigs Theatre

The Meigs Theatre was indirectly referenced in a couple of 1936 announcements placed in the Columbus Dispatch. The theatre was to be installed in an existing building by the Rex Theater Co., which at the time, operated 31 theaters, primarily in eastern Ohio. A corporation named, the Meigs Theater Co., was formed to remodel and open the new theatre by September 1, 1936. The incorporators were Walter B. Urling, R. T. Jennings and George Davis.

Besides, advertisements placed by the theatre, other accounts of happenings involving this structure are sorely missing, other than photos by community citizens. Newspapers in the online Meigs County library website are missing from the year when the theatre was announced to be open. The first theatre advertisement discovered was in November 1940.

Despite newspapers being missing from the library website for many years, the Meigs Theatre appears to have been operating consistently through the middle 1970’s. After a three-day run of Jack Nicholson in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” on September 17-18-19, 1976, the theater placed a long-running advertisement. It stated “Closed for Vacation; Watch for Opening Date”. This ad was repeated from September 20, 1976 through May 1, 1977. After May 1, 1977, no other advertisements from the theatre appeared in the local newspaper, at the time, “The Daily Sentinel”.

I could not find any official confirmation of its permanent closing.

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