Coronet Theatre
4979 W. 44th Avenue,
Denver,
CO
80212
4979 W. 44th Avenue,
Denver,
CO
80212
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Opened September 4th, 1948
Need to update the status from Closed to Restoring. Work began in 2021 but has been delayed due to COVID and some resistance from the community regarding an application for a liquor and cabaret license. The theatre will be renamed “The Yates” and will serve as a music venue with some of the senior staff formally of the Bluebird Theatre managing the facility.
Motion Picture Herald, May 1, 1948: “Civic Theatres will remodel and reopen the Rex, closed five years, under new name during May.”
Motion Picture Herald, July 31, 1948: “Civic Theatres will reopen the Rex, closed several years, after extensive remodeling, as the Coronet, September 1.”
The new owners are still trying to figure out what to do with the former Yates Theater: https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/25/yates-theater-tavern-denver/
Nice write-up about this north Denver theater. I had been in it once in the 1990s when it was still a piano store. The floors had never been leveled, so all the keyboards slanted downhill!
https://denverite.com/2018/12/05/the-historic-mysterious-yates-theater-is-on-a-path-to-restoration-and-reopening-in-berkeley/?fbclid=IwAR2VTN84RZxT3CM2AAT-TBd_QF0hcYHnoQFYN31C9bJVGCGfNdDFXGdzY0k