Alamo Airdome
408-410 N. Main Street,
Garden City,
KS
67846
408-410 N. Main Street,
Garden City,
KS
67846
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The Alamo Airdome was opened on May 10, 1910. This basic airdome appears on the 1911 map, located on a lot which held part of a lumber yard in 1905.
This theater may have been associated with either the Electric Theater in the Windsor Hotel, or the Stevens Opera House to its south, both of which were just across the street.
The theater may have closed by 1914-15, as it is not listed in the AMPD. By 1920 a large hardware store had been constructed here, as the Carter Brothers enterprise expanded from a smaller storefront at 406. This was later remodeled into a Woolworth’s, which is the current building.
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A photo of the theater can be seen here: https://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=055-1950-00884
A history of Garden City’s Stevens Opera House has this bit of information about one of that house’s early competitors: “A second motion picture theatre, the Alamo, was opened May 10, 1910. This false front, open air theatre, was operated by the owners of the Electric Theatre during the hot summer months, another good reason for the prolonged closing of the opera house in the summer.”
I wonder if the Electric was the theater in the hotel. I haven’t found any indication that the opera house showed movies.
I just left a comment on the nameless theater’s page, saying why I think it was indeed the Electric. The history of the Stevens Opera House, to which I linked in that comment, says that the Opera House did show movies occasionally, but was never successful as a cinema long term. It was closed in the early 1920s and a new owner sold it to the J. C. Penney company who converted it into a store that was still in operation in the late 1960s.
Despite being ‘suscribed’, I haven’t gotten notifications for a long time. I can’t be the only Firefox user, and I have no idea what the problem is.
Neither here nor there, but the opera house was torn down in the ‘50s. The present building is a J.C. Penney replacement from 1953.