Fox Watson Theater
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Fox Watson Theater
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Jon Burch Photography
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Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
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The Fox–Watson Theater, as it was then called, was opened in late February 1931. The theater was the brain-child of Winfield W. Watson, a local businessman and banker. He led the campaign to bring a movie house to Salina, Kansas and donated the land for the theater. Fox West Coast Theaters built the art deco style movie house at a cost of $400,000. Boller Brothers, an architectural firm out of Kansas City, Missouri, designed the structure.
The opening feature was Not Exactly Gentlemen featuring Fay Wray. The theater was closed in August 1987 by then owners Dickinson Theaters, as competition from Dickinson's mall theaters made the downtown location unprofitable.
Dickinson gave the theater to the city in 1989. It was restored by a non-profit group over several years and reopened as The Stiefel Theater for the Performing Arts on March 8, 2003.
The mission of the theater is to "enrich, educate and entertain", while the programming goal is to "offer a broad base of quality entertainment in a variety of genres that will appeal to a large demographic". The theater provides entertainment for young audiences, and is the location of the Salina Symphony.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the Fine Art America watermark.
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February 26th, 2020
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