Blue Moon Youth Center
304 E. Main Street,
Blue Mound,
KS
66010
304 E. Main Street,
Blue Mound,
KS
66010
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Additional Info
Functions: Movies
Styles: Quonset Hut
Previous Names: Blue Moon Theater
Phone Numbers:
Manager:
913.756.2264
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This Quonset Hut style theater was opened in June 1948, but it does not show up in the Film Daily Yearbooks. It was operated by Ray Miner who also operated the Miner Theatre in Moran, KS (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures).
It has a brick facade with a central ticket booth flanked by double doors. It doubtless did not last long, as this town was never very large, and shrank rapidly from a 1900 peak of 738 to 424 by 1950 and 319 in 1960. Linn County likewise lost several thousand residents in the same period, eliminating potential weekend clientele from rural areas.
In 2010, it was being used as a music hall, but it has been remodeled and is used as the Blue Moon Youth Center which is operated by a church. Movies were shown frequently, with showings free of charge. The building is in very good shape, but has lost a lot of character.
Contributed by
Seth Gaines
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Recent comments (view all 4 comments)
It appears that this facility is being operated by the Blue Mound Bible Church. I’ve added a photo of its interior as of 2021.
Trolleyguy’s comment was misinterpreted. The church runs the youth center. The changes should be reverted.
The February 28, 1948 issue of Boxoffice reported that business men in blue Mound, Kansas had met to discuss the possibility of having a movie theater built in the town. They apparently met with rapid success, as the July 17 issue of the same journal reported the recent opening of the Blue Mound Theatre. The item said that the new house was owned by Ray Miner, owner and operator of the Miner Theatre at Moran, Kansas.
Blue Mound had been the home of a movie house called the Peoples Theatre in the mid-1920s, but I haven’t discovered what became of it.
The Peoples was likely demolished. Downtown is in very sad shape.
Reminder that the changes made based on Trolleyguy’s comment need to be reverted. He was not saying that it had become a church, merely that the church runs the youth center.