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CinemaService commented about Price Theatre on Oct 12, 2022 at 11:53 pm

I serviced the Price and King Koal theaters for a long time till I retired. The Price is a cool single screen theater that’s still in good shape. It’s open and closed right now depending on film booking availability. I converted both theaters to digital projection back about 2012.

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CinemaService commented about Echo Drive-In on Jan 15, 2010 at 2:46 pm

This is about as picturedsque as a drive-in gets… It is surrounded by wonderful red rock bluffs!

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CinemaService commented about Queen Theatre on Jan 15, 2010 at 2:43 pm

The book store has vacated the new building and has moved to another location in Bountiful.

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CinemaService commented about Cinedome 70 on Jan 15, 2010 at 2:39 pm

I would cost several million dollars just to get the building in shape again to be able re-open it. This was one of those buildings built back when electricity was really cheap and as a result the entire building is 100% electric. That wouldn’t fly today in the world of high electric costs.

I aquired a pair of the 70mm projectors that were still in Cinedome late last year and while in there I went through the place top to bottom. There is still a huge hand painted “Empire Strikes Back” sign up stairs in the air handler room! The 60 foot wide curved screens are still both there and intact. Some of the speakers have been removed or the drivers stripped. All the seats are there as well but they are in rough shape. Much of the copper wire in the building has been striped out by vandals and the roof top air conditioning units have been completely striped by vandals. The building would have to be 100% updated and it would still not make enough money in today’s multiplex oriented world to pay it’s way. Sadly, it is now an extinct dinosaur.

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CinemaService commented about Cinemark Bountiful 8 on Jan 15, 2010 at 2:29 pm

Red Carpet Cimenas went bankrupt in October 09 and the theater is presently closed and has been stripped out. Cinemark Theaters has leased the property and plans on doing a full renovation. It was always a lousy theater so this will be welcomed by everyone in town!

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CinemaService commented about Main Street Theatre on Jan 15, 2010 at 2:26 pm

It is back open now for almost a year. Info below…

Main Street Theatre
55 North Main Street
Beaver, UT 84713
435-438-1234

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CinemaService commented about Wendover Cinema & Video on Jan 15, 2010 at 2:20 pm

I service the projection equipment in this theater from time to time. This is a three screen movie theater and video store combination and it’s pretty well kept up. About 100 to 120 seats per room. It is operated by a man who was at ome time a projectionist in the old Salt Lake City projectionists union. All screens are stereo and the original theater as built was just two screens. A third screen was added on to the west side of the building along with offices. It is the only operating movie theater between Salt Lake City and Elko, NV, about 100 miles in each direction!

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CinemaService commented about Wendover Cinema & Video on Jan 15, 2010 at 2:20 pm

I service the projection equipment in theis theater from time to time. This is a three screen movie theater and video store combination and it’s pretty well kept up. About 100 to 120 seats per room. It is operated by a man who was at ome time a projectionist in the old Salt Lake City projectionists union. All screens are stereo and the original theater as built was just two screens. A third screen was added on to the west side of the building along with offices. It is the only operating movie theater between Salt Lake City and Elko, NV, about 100 miles in each direction!

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CinemaService commented about Wheaton Grand Theater on Jan 15, 2010 at 2:12 pm

Having grown up in Glen Ellyn and also having done maintainance on the projection and sound systems there for a number of years it’s great to hear this theater lives on. However I’m trying to figure out just whats so grand about it. Both the Glen and the Wheaton Theaters were just plain jane big barns in their days. I grew up in Glen Ellyn and attended the DuPage, Glen, and the Wheaton theaters regularly and the Dupage was the only gem of the trio. Sadly the real gem is gone.

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CinemaService commented about Wheaton Grand Theater to Close for Restoration April 1st on Jan 15, 2010 at 2:09 pm

It’s great to hear the theater lives on but I’m trying to figure out whats so grand about it. Both the Glen and the Wheaton Theaters were just plain jane big barns in their days. I grew up in Glen Ellyn and attended the DuPage, Glen, and the Wheaton theaters regularly and the Dupage was the only gem of the trio. Sadly the real gem is gone.