Centre Theatre
216 16th Street,
Denver,
CO
80202
216 16th Street,
Denver,
CO
80202
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I don’t recall. Sometime in 1980 or 1981.
I might direct your attention to the book “Movie Palaces” by Ave Pildas.
It has beautiful interior/exterior color photos of the Centre Theater in Denver.
By the way, when was this theater demolished?
Trainmaster
The Centre was located on 16th street between Cleveland Place and Court Place, now called the 16th street mall. The building it occupied was demolished sometime in the early eighties and a ten story high-rise is in its place. I think Mann theaters was running the Centre at the time it was raised.
Lost memory,
The picture posted to my knowledge is not the Centre Theater in Denver.
The Centre was a beautiful modern movie theater (at the time when it was built)
with a large screen.
I don’t know how true this is, I was told the Centre was built by 20th Century Fox to display the new CinemaScope process in 1952. I’m sure The Robe had its Denver premiere at the Centre.
I was a very young person the first time I seen a movie at the Centre.
I think it may have been the Plant of the Apes. I remember the Exorcist played for months, Gone with the Wind always seemed to playing, I even seen Star Wars there during a second run in the summer of 78.
My mother and I attended the Centre often when I was young. It was on our favorite movie theater list, along with the Denver, Paramount, Aladdin and of course the one and only fabulous Cooper Cinerama Theater.
I saw many first-run movies at the Centre. Those Magnificient Men, The Fortune Cookie, Deliverance and Poseidon Adventure were among them. In the 60’s and early 70’s the theatre was operated by Fox Intermountain (National General) Theatres. The experience of seeing a movie here was always enjoyable.
The ANNUAL mentioned is available from:
PHOTOS AVAILABLE:
To obtain any available Back Issue of either “Marquee” or of its ANNUALS, simply go to the web site of the THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA at:
www.HistoricTheatres.org
and notice on their first page the link “PUBLICATIONS: Back Issues List” and click on that and you will be taken to their listing where they also give ordering details. The “Marquee” magazine is 8-1/2x11 inches tall (‘portrait’) format, and the ANNUALS are also soft cover in the same size, but in the long (‘landscape’) format, and are anywhere from 26 to 40 pages. Should they indicate that a publication is Out Of Print, then it may still be possible to view it via Inter-Library Loan where you go to the librarian at any public or school library and ask them to locate which library has the item by using the Union List of Serials, and your library can then ask the other library to loan it to them for you to read or photocopy. [Photocopies of most THSA publications are available from University Microforms International (UMI), but their prices are exorbitant.]
Note: Most any photo in any of their publications may be had in large size by purchase; see their ARCHIVE link. You should realize that there was no color still photography in the 1920s, so few theatres were seen in color at that time except by means of hand tinted renderings or post cards, thus all the antique photos from the Society will be in black and white, but it is quite possible that the Society has later color images available; it is best to inquire of them.
Should you not be able to contact them via their web site, you may also contact their Executive Director via E-mail at:
Or you may reach them via phone or snail mail at:
Theatre Historical Soc. of America
152 N. York, 2nd Floor York Theatre Bldg.
Elmhurst, ILL. 60126-2806 (they are about 15 miles west of Chicago)
Phone: 630-782-1800 or via FAX at: 630-782-1802 (Monday through Friday, 9AM—4PM, CT)
and….your point? Tell me something about THIS theatre.