It operated 15 theaters with 169 screens in seven states: Arkansas, Arizona, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.

[1] In 1920, company founder Glen W. Dickinson, Sr quit the family business –a Ford dealership in Brookfield, Missouri specializing in tractors—to purchase a small two-screen theatre in a booming agricultural college town.

Property was also purchased near a little-known town called Overland Park, Kansas, with contract and the dream to build Dickinson's finest theatre.

[2] The next ten years became very important for Dickinson Theatres, as the construction of a major motor hotel complex, the Glenwood Manor Motor Hotel, began at 95th and Metcalf, just a short distance away from what would be Dickinson's "Flagship" Glenwood Theatre, already in construction.

Its overwhelming popularity with the public and film companies soon warranted the construction of additional screens and expansion to the complex.

Destined to become Dickinson's most luxurious movie center and model operation for excellence, the WestGlen soared expectations and later expanded to 18 screens.

Reviving the company mission to provide the best of family entertainment, the following years show a rebirth of the Dickinson Theatres.

[2] In October 2011, Dickinson Theaters added National CineMedia to its network affiliates, which has started on December of that year.

[4] In July 2012, John Hartley retired and sold the company to Ron Horton, who, at the time, was executive vice president of film buying and marketing.