Federal Theatre
3830 Federal Boulevard,
Denver,
CO
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3830 Federal Boulevard,
Denver,
CO
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Held an reopening on July 2nd, 1949. Ad posted.
Image and copy added courtesy of Save The Signs Facebook page.
I saw The Thing with Kurt Russell here in 1982 – by then, the Federal was a dark, dank dollar-house venue.
I used to go to the Federal Theater in the 80s. It had reopened as a second run theater to try to compete with the newly opening discount theaters in the Denver area.
The first movie I remember seeing there was Tron toward the end of summer in 1982. The last movie I remember seeing there was Pretty in Pink in the spring of 1986.
In contrast to the article at Westword linked earlier, I have no recollection of the Federal showing porn. The neighborhood seems like it would have been unsuited to such a theater.
An artist’s impression of the Federal Theater is here:
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and an article about closed Denver theaters that mentions the Federal’s history after closing as a theater is here:
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