Mesa Theatre
317 Santa Fe Avenue,
La Junta,
CO
81050
317 Santa Fe Avenue,
La Junta,
CO
81050
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Fox Inter-Mountain Theaters Inc.
Functions: Beauty Salon
Styles: Pueblo Deco
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A conversion of former retail space, the Mesa Theatre was opened on September 15, 1935. Listed as seating 475 in the Film Daily Yearbook of 1955.
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Anthony L. Vazquez-Hernandez
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This could have been the Mesa’s predecessor, or not.
“The Princess theater at La Junta has been leased by E. M. Role, who will conduct it as a five-cent theater.” – Motography, April 1911
On second thought, this note from the Sept. 7, 1935 Motion Picture Daily sounds more like the birth of the Mesa, since the seating number is close:
“La Junta, Col., Sept. 6. — A new theatre remodeled from a store building will be opened here Sept. 15 with Crawford Brothers of Oklahoma as operators. It will seat 450. Fox has two houses here, but one of them is closed.”
A note in the Sept. 23, 1935 Motion Picture Daily said that the Fox was reseating the Elk in La Junta, and it was to reopen soon.
Boxoffice, Nov. 4, 1950: “LA JUNTA, COLO. – Joe Vleck of Pocatello, Ida., has been named manager of the La Junta Fox Theatre here … Vleck will also manage the new Mesa Theatre, scheduled to open this month.”
Boxoffice, May 2, 1953: “LA JUNTA, COLO. – The Mesa Theatre here has been sold to Basil Smith, owner of the La Junta Drive-In. Harold Rice, Fox Intermountain district manager, said the sale was made in compliance with the consent decree. The Mesa is the newest theatre here, opened in 1950.”