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Midland Theater
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I got into the basement and the attic. The old power generation room in the basement has two big generators, countless old motors and some very cool old big switches.
There are two tunnels under the basement. The first tunnel branches off in three directions, but all three branches dead end within about 30 feet. The second tunnel also looks as if it dead ends after about 20 feet. When I saw the second tunnel, I was being escorted by a maintenance worker, who had found me snooping around in the basement. But he was cool. I chatted him up, and he did not kick me out. He showed me the second tunnel, which he said continued for one mile under downtown. I do not believe him. He would not let me drop down into it. There is a picture in the gallery.
At the top of the upper balcony, the old projection room was stripped of equipment, but it was covered with graffiti from actors and crew from the various shows that played at the theater over the years; "DREAMGIRLS 1986", etc. From the front attic over the street, there is a ladder which leads to the attic over the auditorium. There, you can see the huge dome over the auditorium, and several smaller domes. The entire ceiling is suspended from rods which hang from the steel trusses overhead. There are many wooden catwalks and ladders, which are also suspended from rods. The catwalks sway as you walk on them.
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Type: movie palace
Status: Active
Accessibility: The public areas are accessible whenever there is a show.
Recommendation: drop everything - must see
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Address
Kansas City, Missouri
United States
Owner: AMC
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The article below was copied from Wikipedia on 9/12/08.
The Midland Theater is a 3,573-seat theater located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
It was built by Marcus Loew, completed in 1927, at a cost of $4 million and is the largest historic theater within 250 miles of the city. The Midland was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb of New York and the Boller Brothers of Kansas City, and Boaz-Kiel Construction of St. Louis erected the structure. The theater, built in French and Italian Baroque, was representative of Lamb's work in the 1920s.
The exterior of the theater was constructed in a Renaissance Revival style in cream glazed terra cotta brick, adorned with engaged pilasters, winged figures, leaves, flowers, swags, volutes, urns, and arches. A four-story arched window rose above a copper and gold marquee that contained 3,600 light bulbs.
The Midland was the first theater in the country to have air conditioning, which the theater still does to this day. It was also the first theater in the country to have a cantilevered loge, or mezzanine of seats supported without any pillars to obstruct the view from lower seats. The theater is also well known for its over 500,000 feet of gold leaf, five giant Czechoslovakian hand-cut crystal chandeliers, irreplaceable art objects and precious antiques, and spectacular wood and plaster work. The nearly 4,000 seats made the Midland the third largest theater in the nation at the time it opened. It was surpassed only by the Roxy Theater and Capitol Theater, both in New York.
At the time the Loew's Midland opened, it was home to a Robert-Morgan theater pipe organ. The organ was used at the theater until after World War II, when larger screen sound movies eventually resulted in the end for stage shows and in-house organ music. The organ began to deteriorate from lack of use until it was purchased and removed in the 1960s by Robert Fray and placed in his home. After the organ changed hands and was moved across the country several more times, it was eventually purchased by local enthusiasts in 1984 and is now at home in the Kansas City Music Hall.
The Midland closed in January 1961, and then after some remodeling, it briefly reopened as an arena that served as the home for Kansas City's professional bowling team, the Kansas City Stars. The Stars were financially unsuccessful, and they left the Midland in December of the same year.
AMC Theatres purchased the Midland in 1966, and the theater continued to operate as a movie house until 1981. Since then, it has become a performance hall, still used today for concerts, Broadway and stage shows, ballet and other events. It has also served as the Kansas City home of the annual Radio City Christmas Spectacular over more recent years. The theater was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The theater closed in May 2006 to prepare for its upcoming renovation.
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Opheliaism on 4/1/2013 1:26 PM.
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on Apr 1 13 at 13:26, Opheliaism validated this location
on Mar 31 13 at 1:53, peterbillionaire made this location public
on Sep 20 08 at 16:22, Opheliaism validated this location
on Sep 20 08 at 9:11, peterbillionaire updated gallery down in the basement
on Sep 20 08 at 9:10, peterbillionaire updated gallery picture DSC04670.JPG
on Sep 20 08 at 9:04, peterbillionaire updated gallery picture DSC04670.JPG
on Sep 20 08 at 9:04, peterbillionaire updated gallery picture DSC04669.JPG
on Sep 20 08 at 9:02, peterbillionaire updated gallery picture DSC04667.JPG
on Sep 20 08 at 9:01, peterbillionaire updated gallery picture DSC04664.JPG
on Sep 20 08 at 8:59, peterbillionaire updated gallery picture DSC04663.JPG
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