Elberta Theatre
Palisade,
CO
81526
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The Elberta Theatre is listed in the Film Daily Yearbook’s of 1936 & 1937 with 400 seats. In 1940 thru to 1943 it is listed as having 250 seats.
In 1950 the Elberta Theatre is listed with 210 seats and was still open in 1957.
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Anthony L. Vazquez-Hernandez
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In movie reviews printed in the April 19, 1947 Motion Picture Herald, Harold J. Johnson was from the Elberta Theatre in Palisade.
Boxoffice, Sept. 11, 1948: “PALISADE, COLO. – Harold J. Johnson and his wife Eleanor have been ordered to pay a total of $1,683.71 to the former Johnson-Waite partnership which operated the Elberta Theatre here until the recent dissolution of the partnership. Judge Paul L. Littler’s findings in the court case further ordered the Johnsons to pay the U.S. government internal revenue department the interest and penalties assessed on delinquent admissions taxes, or to make a settlement satisfactory to the revenue department.”
Boxoffice, Sept. 11, 1948 (five pages later, same issue): “PALISADE, COLO. – The Palisade Theatre case, involving ownership of a local theatre, has been settled amicably with Frank H. Waite, one of the owners, taking over complete control of the Elberta, and buying out his former partner Harold J. Johnson, who will retire from exhibition here."
Boxoffice, Sept. 29, 1951: “The Elberta Theatre, owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Waite for the past three and one-half years, has been sold to Kermit R. Hurst, recently of Heningford, Neb.”