The 50s & 60s
Making Memories
Most of the living memories of the McPherson Opera House center on the Mac Theater. For young children it was a place for summer daytime fun, with double features, cartoons and a serial. For young teens, it was the scene of many an awkward first kiss. For older teens, it was a place for dates. For adults it was a source of entertainment.
Television, however, effected an even more radical change in entertainment habits than the arrival of the movies, and one by one McPherson’s movie theaters closed: first the Ritz, then the Manor. The Mac was the last downtown theater left standing, but it went dark in March 1965.
