Electric Theatre
102 S. Springfield Avenue,
Bolivar,
MO
65613
102 S. Springfield Avenue,
Bolivar,
MO
65613
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The New Electric Theatre launched September 26, 1908. It closed on March 9, 1929 with Rex, King of Horses, in “The Devil Horse.”
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.