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Paramount Theatre
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61-63 E Center St
Provo UT
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| Record #28232 |
Opened: July 8, 1914
Closed: Yes (date unknown)
Demolished: 1991
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Current Organ: none |
| Also Known As: Columbia |
| Previously operated by: Paramount, Intermountain Theatres, ABC Intermountain Theatres, Plitt Theatres |
Information for this tour was contributed by Grant Smith. The Columbia Theater was open from about 1918 to 1927 [1] and showed movies from about 1920 to 1925. [2]
A November 1920 ad for the Columbia theater said, "Sprightly Jazz dance and musical act." [3]
The Paramount Theater, located at 63 East Center Street, [4] showed movies from about 1930 to 1980. [5]
1. Polk's Utah Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1918-1919, 1920-1921, 1922-1923, 1927-1928
2. "Provo", movietheatre.org, listing as its sources the Film Weekly Film Journal yearbooks 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and International motion picture almanacs 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2000
3. "Chapter 9: The Age of Jazz, 1920-1929", A History of Utah County, by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Utah State History CD-ROM
4. Polk's Utah Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1930-1931
5. "Provo", movie-theatre.org, movie-theatre.org, listing as its sources the Film Weekly Film Journal yearbooks 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and International motion picture almanacs 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2000
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