Idle Hour Theatre
124 E. 12th Street,
Kansas City,
MO
64106
124 E. 12th Street,
Kansas City,
MO
64106
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In its issue of January 1, 1916, trade journal The Moving Picture World said that W.D. Scoville’s Idle Hour Theatre had become the first all-night movie house between the Great Lakes and the Rocky Mountains. The theater ran a continuous program from nine o'clock each morning until six o'clock the following morning.
The Idle Hour Theatre was demolished in 1924 to make way for a retail store building.
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Joe Vogel
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I think this is the unknown theater that I listed at 116 ½. There was no 124, 120 was the highest address. I think the picture shows a post-1909 remodel of the theater to use 116, a very narrow two story storefront, as the entrance. The three story building on the right would have been the old Central Hotel.
We should merge my listing into this one. This theater is not listed in the 1914-15 AMPD, but that was apparently either an oversight or it was briefly closed.