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 Route 66 Theater - Webb City, Missouri Posted by:  iconions
N 37° 08.730 W 094° 27.792
15S E 370054 N 4112015
This painted brick, two-story Art Deco building is located at 24 S. Main Street in Webb City, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WM16DRT
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2022
Views: 4
My Commentary:
This building appears to be a normal, small-town, Art Deco movie theater. It has, it appears, an ethereal resident named "Zack". From the story below, "Zack" is harmless, but he likes attention. Interesting read on Paranormal researchers looking for Zack.
News Story on "Zack:
Loud footsteps, creaky noises, and strange sounds…all had employees at the Route 66 Theater wondering if their was another presence lurking nearby…
“There was one Friday afternoon. no one had been here all week. I came in alone. Right after I shut the door and locked it the paper towel dispenser in the restroom went off and it’s motion sensored,” tells Assistant Manager Eve Tebbets.
General Manager Lisa Daugherty says, "it’s just a sense that you’re feeling…I sense probably more of an older person upstairs where the projection is.”
To solve the mystery…Manager Lisa Daugherty called in paranormal investigators.
David Glidden heads the Four State Paranormals who investigate whether places are truly haunted.
A horror movie buff, he was inspired to communicate with the undead after one life changing event.
“When I was sixteen one of my brothers passed away and it just really got me thinking about the paranormal…things like life after death,” Flidden confesses.
David returns to the theatre to find answers to questions he still has after capturing this footage in June.
You can see what appears to be a hand grabbing his back.
“I just got pushed, yeah right on the shoulder,” exclaims Glidden.
The paranormals filmed this video with special night vision cameras.
To communicate with the ghosts they played a simple game of twenty questions. A special device was set up playing audio at twenty hertz.
The transmitter blinked once for yes and twice for no.
Next, they brought out the spirit box, that quickly scans through am and fm stations as we asked it questions.
“Please tell me your name,” orders Glidden.
“Zach,” replies the spirit box.
“Zach are you the one who pushed me?”
“scanning…yeah”
The ghost even seemed friendly.
“Hey,” yells the spirit box.
“Hey!” Glidden responds, laughing.
Besides confirming the ghost’s name is Zach, the rest of the night was pretty quiet.
“I had one experience where it felt like something hit the back of my seat when I was sitting in the auditorium. But other than that we really didn’t have much in the way of experiences,” says Glidden.
Whether ghosts haunt this theater or not…I’ll leave that to you to decide, because tonight the atmosphere was pretty dead.
- 3November14 KOAM.com by Diane Gerstenfeld
Information regarding history of building:
24 S. Main Street
Dickenson Theater
ca. 1928
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This is a two-story commercial building with Art Deco detailing and houses a theater, which was renovated to its current style around 1945 according to the tax assessor’s record. A full-width triangular projecting marquee divides the first and second levels. Centered in the façade of the marquee is a neon Route 66 sign. The marquee is trimmed on the bottom with a band of Art Deco scroll design. The first level has two inset entrances each with double wood and glass panel doors painted red with windows trimmed in blue. A glass block ticket booth divides the two entrances and is flanked by curved-to-straight walls clad in Dryvit that hold movie poster windows. The upper level is clad in buff porcelain enameled panels and features a centered slightly projecting curved glass block bay capped with a three-tiered stepped down metal hood. The glass block bay is flanked by full-height, narrow vertical Art Deco style neon lights, followed by rectangle openings with a decorative neon light on a circle base above the rectangular openings and is flanked by full-height narrow vertical Art Deco style neon lights. This building is framed by the original cast iron pilasters that were once part of the Newland Hotel, which partially burned after 1925. Part of this building was constructed from the remains of the hotel, then remodeled in the 1940s to house the Art Deco theater.
- National Register Application
Public access?:
Movie Theater - access would be when the theater is open
Visting hours:
weekends when movies are shown
Website about the location and/or story: [Web Link]
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