Dexter, MO -  A rare image of Week’s Theater  (Dexter) in 1933 looking east. 

Charlie Weeks moved from Indiana just before the turn of the century and opened his first theater as a wooden open air theater in 1906 near the corner of Locust and Stoddard. 

Twenty years later he built a brick theater and in 1939 he built the Art Deco influenced building that still stands. 

The building pictured was the structure that Grandpa and Uncle Gene watched the Wizard Oz in.  They collected glass bottles to raise the money for tickets.  The line on the opening day stretched down the entire block.

From the Paul Arnold Collection - Hope you enjoy!