Grand Theatre
107 N. Main Street,
Fayette,
MO
65248
107 N. Main Street,
Fayette,
MO
65248
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The Grand Theatre is located on N. Main Street and E. Morrison Street. The building that houses the theatre is a two story brick building painted all white. The theatre has a small squared marquee and the building also houses retail shops along the front on either side of the entrance to the theatre. The Grand Theatre seated a little over 400. It opened after the nearby Grand Theatre had closed in the spring of 1992. Last operated by a community group, it was closed around 2014.
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The Grand Theatre is closed.
The Grand Theatre at 107 N. Main was opened in an old commercial building after the original Grand at 115 Main was demolished.
The Grand’s building is currently occupied by a bar and restaurant called Miknan’s Main Street Pub.
The original Grand Theatre was demolished in 1991, and had been in operation at least a late as 1988. The new Grand was opened by the old theater’s last lessee, a resident of Boonville named Johnny Griggs. According to a survey of Fayette’s historic buildings, the new Grand was installed in its historic commercial building in the spring of 1992.
Actually the original Grand Theatre on 115 North Main closed in Spring 1992 after more than 78 years of operation. The second Grand Theatre on 107 North Main opened right after the original location’s closure. The original Grand Theatre building nearby was demolished in the Summer of 1992. In the early-2000s, the theater was renamed the Grand Community Theater.
And yes, Johnny Griggs also was the one who brought back the indoor movie theater business in neighboring Boonville in 1982 exactly six years after its last Boonville indoor single-screen movie theater, the Thespian Hall Theatre, ended its days as a first-run movie theater in July 1976, leaving the Starlite Drive-In the only theater in Boonville until the Cocomo Cinemas launch in 1982.