The last vestige of the Rockhill Theater quietly disappears
When the bulldozers finally razed the sleazy porno shop — formerly the Rockhill Theater — at 46th and Troost, more than a decade ago, one portion of the building was left standing: a two-story buff-brick tower from the original entrance area. This piece of the 1923 structure retained the original metal dome, long rusted but surrounded by the original finials installed when the second-run theater was opened, with great fanfare in 1923. I always wondered why this portion of the theater was saved. Were there plans to incorporate the structure into a newer building on the site? Much of the original footprint of the Rockhill Theater was used for a Walgreens Pharmacy. This week, the remaining tower was quietly torn down behind a white-washed wooden barrier.
