Nickelodeon
518 State Street,
Augusta,
KS
67010
518 State Street,
Augusta,
KS
67010
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Opened in 1907, this early theater appears on the November 1908 Sanborn. It was located in an old two story stone building with a brick front. This was built sometime before 1884, and is shown on the 1902 map as a grocery.
This building was quite small, and the ‘theater’ was likely a projector and some chairs. The 1915 map shows the space once again a grocery. This building is sadly one of 6-7 historic structures trashed with a hideous big box dryvit makeover. It is the northernmost portion of these.
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Seth Gaines
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This must have been the house that opened in 1907 as the Nickelodeon, noted in Douglas Gomery’s 1992 book Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States. It later moved and was renamed the Idle Hour, and was still in operation under that name in 1916 when the larger Isis Theatre opened. Gomery doesn’t give addresses, or say if the Nickelodeon was renamed before or after it moved to its new location, but the new location appears to have been 511 State Street.