Electric Theatre
102 S. Springfield Avenue,
Bolivar,
MO
65613
102 S. Springfield Avenue,
Bolivar,
MO
65613
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The Electric Theatre was opened in 1908. It appears on the 1909 Sanborn. It was located in the central storefront of an opera house built sometime before 1894. This large two story brick building had an opera house upstairs, and three storefronts below. The 1900 map shows stoves and hardware sold in the future theatre space.
The Electric Theatre which appears in the 1926 Yearbook with 250 seats. It was closed in April 1929.
Both this building and its neighbor have been the victims of a very ugly and low quality remodel, and they are used as the offices for a local hospital.
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Seth Gaines
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This web page has a history of Bolivar’s movie theaters, and says that the Bolivar Electric Theatre opened in 1908 on the east side of the square. If this house is the only one on the east side of the square on the 1909 map it must have been the Electric. A later section of the history page says that “[b]y April of 1929 Jerry L. Drake had bought the Davis Ritz Theater and the Electric Theater. He immediately closed the Electric Theater.”
Aside from a few capsule movie reviews by the Electric’s manager, J. C. McKee, in 1922 and 1923, I’ve found no mentions of the house in theater industry trade journals.