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The Midland Theatre is a 3,000-seat theater located in the Power & Light District of Kansas City, Missouri, United States.The National Collegiate Athletic Association under Walter Byers had its headquarters in the building from the 1950s until it moved to 6299 Nall Avenue at Shawnee Mission Parkway in Mission, Kansas in 1971. [2]
The basement lounge in 2005. Designed by Rapp & Rapp, the 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m 2) theater opened on October 30, 1921 as the Mainstreet Missouri.The 3,200-seat theater was a popular vaudeville and movie house, and the only theater in Kansas City designed by Chicago firm Rapp and Rapp.
In 1936, Commonwealth purchased its headquarters in downtown Kansas City, part of a "film row" that hosted several regional film distribution companies. [1]In 1983, Commonwealth went private through a merger with CMN Capital Corp. [2] By 1984, Commonwealth was reported to be one of the largest movie theater chains in the country, with over 400 screens in 14 states.
Kansas City, Kansas, is part of a bi-state media market that comprises 32 counties in northeastern Kansas and northwestern Missouri. The Kansas City media market (ranked 32nd by Arbitron [ 83 ] and 31st by Nielsen [ 84 ] ) includes 10 television stations and 30 FM and 21 AM radio stations.
Amc Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (doing business as AMC Theatres, originally an abbreviation for American Multi-Cinema; often referred to simply as AMC) is an American movie theater chain founded in Kansas City, Missouri, and now headquartered in Leawood, Kansas. It is the largest movie theater chain in the world.
1995 marked Dickinson Theatres' 75th anniversary and a year of great success. Dickinson introduced the "Crown Jewel" to the Kansas City area, opening the extraordinary WestGlen 12 Theatre in Shawnee, Kansas. Destined to become Dickinson's most luxurious movie center and model operation for excellence, the WestGlen soared expectations and later ...
Ward Parkway was created as part of developer J.C. Nichols's overall plans for the Country Club District.Desiring a boulevard that would exceed the aesthetic value of all other streets in Kansas City, Nichols hired landscape architect George Kessler, who had designed several other boulevards, parks, and neighborhoods throughout Kansas City, Missouri, including Hyde Park. [2]
Carmike Cinemas, Inc. was an American motion picture exhibitor headquartered in Columbus, Georgia.As of March 2016, the company had 276 theaters with 2,954 screens in 41 states, and was the fourth largest movie theater chain in the United States. [1]