I may show some that would be outside what we now consider Paseo West, but were still adjacent and connected in one large cohesive, dense commercial and residential neighborhood. Specifically I mean some neighborhoods east of Paseo and south of 15th Street (now Truman Road).
What we think of now as Paseo West is the area bounded by I-70 on the west, Paseo Boulevard on the east, Truman Road on the south, and Independence Avenue and I-29 on the north. Three commercial streets served the neighborhood: 15th Street (later Truman Road), 12th Street, and Independence Avenue.
Paseo West looking northeast.

The neighborhood was served by three movie theaters: the New Center Theater at 15th and Troost, the Admiral Theater at 8th and Virginia, and the Castle Theater at Paseo and 12th Street.
Shown below is the New Center Theater building in 1920 at E. 15th (later Truman Road) and Troost. In addition to the movie theater, the 7-story building's tenants were Spaulding Commercial College and Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery. Murphy's Drug Store is on the first-floor corner of 15th Street (later Truman Road) and Troost Avenue.

The one-screen theater opened in 1916 and had 1400 seats. The building was designed by the Boller Brothers, a local firm that specialized in theaters and designed many in the KC metro, and more than 200 across the country.
https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/18048
Spaulding's Commercial College also was located at an earlier time in the New York Life Building at 9th and Baltimore, on the SW corner of 11th and Main, and in the Insurance Building at 318 E. 10th on the NW corner of 10th and Oak now owned by Abnos. Other later locations were 3103 Troost and 3208 Troost. The college taught bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, modern languages, and higher mathematics.
Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery would later evolve into Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences at Independence Avenue and Woodland.
Later the New Center Theater building would become the headquarters for The Calvin Company which produced mostly educational and training industrial films. The Calvin Company would become a training ground for filmmaker Robert Altman. The Calvin Company was a self-contained production company within one building. They made movies as well as processed and printed them. The facility had soundstages and film printing labs. The company employed copywriters, film editors, directors, camera operators, as well as all the related film production staff.
The Calvin Company is discussed in this archived video starting at minute 29.00.
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb ... 4-83xsjcz4
The company closed in the mid-1980s and the building was demolished to create an athletic field for the Manual Career Tech Center next door.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/3208+ ... ?entry=ttu
The Admiral Theater (below) was located at 1312-1314 East 8th Street in Paseo West when it still was primarily residential. It seated 800 and was open still in 1950.

The Castle Theater was located at 1500 East 12th Street (at Paseo). It seated 782.

Photo from 1962 shows when 12th and Troost had a real functioning urban intersection. What is seen is the north and south block of 12th between Harrison and Troost.

Here are aerials of the neighborhood.
https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/ ... m/OBJ/view
https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/ ... m/OBJ/view
https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/ ... m/OBJ/view
Paseo West before freeway construction.

Looking at the Dearing Flats on the NE corner of 12th and Troost in 1940. On the right side is the Highland Drug Store in the Lafayette Hotel on the SE corner of that intersection.

The Dearing Flats in the 1920s before other buildings were constructed around it.

The Dean Hotel was on the south side of 12th Street west of Troost.
