Opening: 1911 or a bit earlier. It's unknown what the name of the theatre even was. All that is known is that the 1911 city directory had a listing under "moving picture theaters" for William Dohs at this address. In the 1910 directory 166 N. Main had been a restaurant.
David Ross gets the listing as proprietor in the 1912 directory under "moving picture theatres" and in the 1913 directory this address gets a listing for C.R. Walrod. In neither case do we get a hint of the theatre's name.
The theatre was in a storefront in the U.S. Hotel building on the southeast corner of Main and Market St. The Temple Block was across the street. Market St. vanished with redevelopment east of City Hall.
Closing: Evidently it didn't work out too well for these guys. In the 1914 directory a George W. Yarrow has the premises. It was then evidently a combination billiards hall and barber shop.
Status: The hotel building the theatre was in was demolished in 1939.
A c.1938 look at the U.S. Hotel. The storefront with all the trim painted white is 166, the former theatre location. Across Market St. is the Amestoy Block. On the extreme left, although we don't see the theatre, it's the building the Roosevelt Theatre was in. It's a Dick Whittington Studio photo in the USC Digital Library collection.
The theatre site. That's City Hall East on the left and, through the trees, Parker Center getting dismantled. Photo: Bill Counter - 2019
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