Conway Theater
1016 Front Street,
Conway,
AR
72032
1016 Front Street,
Conway,
AR
72032
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Previously operated by: Malco Theatres Inc., Rowley United Theatres Inc., United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
Architects: Frank Ginocchio, T.M. Sanders
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The Conway Theater was opened on April 22, 1924. It was designed by architects T.M. Sanders & Frank Ginocchio. The Conway Theater closed in November 1974.
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I’m not old enough to remember the Grand Theatre, but my Mother used to talk about it. She said they referred to it as “The Rat Races.” It was located where the Monday-Powell Shoe Store was in downtown Conway, in the same block as the Western Auto Store, and across the street from Van-Atkins, which later became Frank Rivers Men’s Store.
Several shots of the exterior of the Conway Theatre can been seen in the film “September 30th, 1955” The exterior is used as the backdrop over the closing titles in the film. Pity it’s gone now, but since the motto for Arkansas is “four tooth minimum” it doesn’t surprise me.
Great story Richard.
1963 photo added via Aaron Sartain.
I found a reference to someone opening a shoe shine parlor in the Conway Theatre Building in 1925. The September 1, 1923 issue of Moving Picture World had this item in their “Theaters Projected” column:
The parking lot where the Conway Theatre once stood runs through the narrow block from Front Street to Spencer Street, and given that the building had been built by 1925 this notice seems likely to be about the Conway.Later operated by Malco Theatres, then United Theatres Corporation, then Rowley United, and finally United Artists. It was closed in 1974.
Closed March 10, 1984 with a triple feature of Simone Griffeth in “Sixteen,” George A. Romero’s “Hungry Wives” (aka “Season of the Witch”), and Becky Sharpe in “The Playmates.”
It closed in 1974, not 1984.
An article (including a photo) from the May 23, 1982 edtion of the Conway Log Cabin Democrat reported on recent repairs to the aging theatre and presented a brief history. Article lists 4/22/1924 as the opening day.
Rowley United took the theater over in April 1964.