Arcade Theatre

Leach & Christenson’s 500-seat Opera House launched on May 18, 1915 with a live performance of “Pinafore”. It replaced the previous opera house that burned to the ground in November of 1914. Like many opera houses, just months later the Opera House was screening films more commonly than staging live events.

At the end of its 15-year lease, the Opera House got new operators. On October 12, 1930, the Opera House was wired with the DeForest Sound System and reamed as the Arcade Theatre with a reduced seating capacity of 425-seats. It relaunched with Fifi D'Orsay in “Those Three French Girls” supported by “The Flower Garden” and “School’s Out.” The June 1932 opening of the Hartford Theatre numbered the Arcade Theatre’s days.

The Arcade Theatre discontinued advertising on August 29, 1932 with a live appearance by Tom Mix’s “pals” Franke and Mae Stanley along with Pat O'Brien in “The Final Edition” and “Cowboy Frolic”.

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