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Dickinson Theatres was a privately-owned American movie theater chain based in Overland Park. It operated 15 theaters with 169 screens in seven states: Arkansas, Arizona, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. [1] In October 2014, the chain was purchased by B&B Theatres. [1]
The theater was purchased by the City of Overland Park in 1987 for historic preservation purposes. It was sold to the Fine Arts Theatre Group in 1993, which undertook extensive renovations to restore the building to its original appearance. The theater reopened in 2000 as the independent Rio Theatre.
The 1960s and 1970s saw another surge in the industry. Multiplexes, theaters with two to six screens, became the popular choice of movie-goers. Wehrenberg's Cinema Four Center in St. Charles was the first multiplex in the St. Louis area. In the late 1980s and into the 1990s, the circuit started building megaplexes of ten or more screens.
In the 1990s, Cinemark Theatres was one of the first chains to incorporate stadium-style seating into their theatres. [25] In 1997, several disabled individuals filed a lawsuit against Cinemark, alleging that their stadium style seats forced patrons who used wheelchairs to sit in the front row of the theatre, effectively rendering them unable to see the screen without assuming a horizontal ...
August 14, 1997 Dillard's, Marshalls, Oshman's SuperSports USA, and Burlington: July 25, 1997; Closing date: September 18, 2015 (demolished July 11, 2016 - January 2017) Developer: Glimcher Realty Trust and Jordan Robert Perlmutter & Co. Management: Mark Levin: Owner: Garmin LTD. Total retail floor area: 783,010 sq ft (72,744 m 2) [1] No. of ...
West County Center is a shopping mall located in Des Peres, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The original mall was built in 1969. [2] The original mall closed in 2001, and a new mall on the site opened in 2002. The anchor stores are Macy's, Nordstrom, Dick's Sporting Goods, and JCPenney.
Plaza Grill and Cinema Plaza 1907 (formerly known as The Plaza Grill and Cinema and Crystal Plaza and The Bijou ) is located in Ottawa, Kansas, United States and has been named the "oldest purpose-built cinema in operation in the world", [ 1 ] [ 2 ] having applied to Guinness World Records in June 2017 and beaten out a theatre in Denmark by two ...
The Granada Theater was originally built in 1928 as a vaudeville theater in Lawrence, Kansas by the Boller Brothers.It was renovated in 1934 as a movie theater. The first film shown there was Robert Montgomery's 1934 comedy Hide-Out.