Good, Good... I was hoping I'd find someone else who knew the Glenwood, or at least someone whom had seen "Star Wars" in it's original theatrical presentation.
What I was looking at about the 70mm info was The Original First-Week Engagements of "Star Wars", which shows the Glenwood opened with a 35mm print on Thursday May 26, 1977.
I also looked at The Original 70mm engagements of "Star Wars", which does not show the Glenwood ever switching over to a 70mm print.
Honestly to be sure I'd have to go to the library, and look through the Kansas City Star on microfilm. Whatever it was, it sure was impressive on that 70 foot wide screen at the Glenwood. Too bad it's gone now.
I believe that the Glenwood showed "Star Wars" for the full 60 weeks of it's initial run (minus the first day). This would have been from May 26, 1977 through July 20, 1978. This matches both our memories of it showing for over a year. Was there ever another movie that ran continuously in theaters for over a year, save for some special venue showings? A 60 week run is still amazing to me. And for those of you who didn't experience it, that is how loved George Lucas's movie was, the movie which he now claims was just a rough cut that very few people would be interested in seeing. A theater in Portland, OR, ran it for 76 weeks.
If I remember correctly, the Glenwood had a short exclusive run on Return of the Jedi. I saw it later that summer at the Bannister Mall theaters, after having seen it a few times at the Glenwood.
I also saw the SE version of ANH at the Glenwood in 1997. The new special effects stuck out like a sore thumb, but it was good seeing it on the big screen again. I also saw "Phantom Menace" in Theater I at the Glenwood in 1999. Dickinson had already sold the theater, and the new owners had replaced the curved screen with a flat one. It added a few (undesireable) seats to a theater that they claimed they couldn't fill. It's strange that my favorite Star Wars movie started my experience with the Glenwood, and my least favorite ended it.