Little Rock’s Historical Downtown Movie Theaters

Downtown Little Rock has been home to more than a dozen movie theaters over the years, thought one would not guess it in this age of suburban cineplexes.  It is hard to believe there was a time when four theaters were clustered within a block of each other, with even more spread around city blocks.

Some of the earliest movie theaters started off as opera or vaudeville houses, but the advent of motion pictures dramatically changed their operations. The movement of people to western portions of the city and the resulting decline of downtown businesses led to the closure of these houses of cinema.