Rex Theatre
120 S. Center Street,
Casper,
WY
82601
120 S. Center Street,
Casper,
WY
82601
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Previously operated by: Gibraltar Enterprises Inc.
Previous Names: Iris Theatre
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Built immediately to the north of the Bell Theatre (former Town Hall). The Iris Theatre was opened August 22, 1914 with “The Lion and the Mouse”. It reopened as the Rex Theatre on November 3, 1925. It was listed as operating in 1941, but closed in 1943. It had re-opened by 1952 and finally closed in June 1956. It was demolished in the summer of 1962.
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Bryan Krefft
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The America Theater is at 119 S. Center St, across the street where 120 is, is one big empty parking lot, so this is demolished.
This theater started, as the Iris (not to be confused with the current Iris 8 Theater on Yellowstone).
1949 Photo added courtesy of the AmeriCar The Beautiful Facebook page. Note the TAXI sign next door that is in the other photo as well. Not the best shot, but it is the Rex.
This reopened as the Rex theatre on November 3rd, 1925. Grand opening ad in the photo section.
From the July 7, 1956 Motion Picture Herald:
Gibralter Enterprises has closed the Rex, Casper, Wyo., the Motorena drive-in, Greeley, Colo., and has placed the Grove, Gering, Neb., on one change a week – weekends.
Undated auditorium photo added credit Fredric Schulte Family Collection, courtesy Western History Center at Casper College.