Rodgers Theater - Poplar Bluff MO
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N 36° 45.433 W 090° 23.607
15S E 732679 N 4071109
The Rodgers Theatre was opened in 1949 and is a great example of late Art Moderne architecture.
Waymark Code: WMTWXY
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 01/16/2017
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Poplar Bluff was no exception to this phenomenon. It boasted at least 3 movie theaters before 1914, and it was in that year that a man named I.W. Rodgers came to the city and bought the multiple theaters and built the Rodgers Theater. He and his family continued to furnish the movie entertainment in Poplar Bluff for 52 years, until 1966 when the Kerasotes Brothers theaters of Springfield Ill. bought the company.
The building occupies 11, 648 Sq. Ft. At opening it contained 1160 red plush seats, and there was also a cry room for small children and their mothers. The marquee was brilliantly lit which still displays red letters that spell the name of the theater. Movie goers entered the lobby through solid walnut doors. Leather benches lined one of the walls of the lobby.
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