Alamo Airdome
408-410 N. Main Street,
Garden City,
KS
67846
408-410 N. Main Street,
Garden City,
KS
67846
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Grand opening ad:
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Neither here nor there, but the opera house was torn down in the ‘50s. The present building is a J.C. Penney replacement from 1953.
I just left a comment on the nameless theater’s page, saying why I think it was indeed the Electric. The history of the Stevens Opera House, to which I linked in that comment, says that the Opera House did show movies occasionally, but was never successful as a cinema long term. It was closed in the early 1920s and a new owner sold it to the J. C. Penney company who converted it into a store that was still in operation in the late 1960s.
I wonder if the Electric was the theater in the hotel. I haven’t found any indication that the opera house showed movies.
A history of Garden City’s Stevens Opera House has this bit of information about one of that house’s early competitors: “A second motion picture theatre, the Alamo, was opened May 10, 1910. This false front, open air theatre, was operated by the owners of the Electric Theatre during the hot summer months, another good reason for the prolonged closing of the opera house in the summer.”
A photo of the theater can be seen here: https://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=055-1950-00884