Lobo Theater
3013 Central Avenue NE,
Albuquerque,
NM
87106
3013 Central Avenue NE,
Albuquerque,
NM
87106
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Frontier Theatres, Paramount Pictures Inc.
Functions: Church
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
505.265.4759
Manager:
505.268.7782
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News About This Theater
- Nov 18, 2009 — Happy 50th, "Ben-Hur"
The Lobo Theater opened on August 19, 1938. By the early-1940’s it was operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary Hoblitzelle & O'Donnell. It reached out to area students and was a premiere venue for independent, classic and cult films. It also hosted concerts with local bands. By 1964 it was operated by Frontier Theatres.
The Lobo Theater was closed on August 4, 2000 and for lease, which was taken up by a church.
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Martin McCaffery, Roxanne Bly
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Recent comments (view all 15 comments)
I know the people operating it when i was last there in ‘96 worked very hard to keep it running. I always thought it was the pride of Nob Hill. It’s a shame if the area can’t support it any more.
A 1974 view of the Lobo Theater in Albuquerque.
I find it appropriate that the Lobo should become a church, for it is where I attended a dozen showings of “Gigi,” which I certainly worship.
The Lobo getting ready for the Oscars in 1995:
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Nice pictures guys thanks.
A Photo I took of the LOBO Theatre back in Nov of 2008 .. Randy A Carlisle – Historical Photographer
Ms. Blanche Hatton, as the family story goes, was the manager of the Lobo. For about four decades. (She was in the theater business when Roentgen discovered x-rays (that’s a joke), and didn’t retire until she was well into her nineties.)
Anyway, back to the story. Miss Hatton was closing the Lobo late one night(she was alone in the theater) when, with the “petty cash box” in hand, she was met with an armed intruder in the Lobo lobby.
“Give me the cash!” the robber demanded.
“You want the cash?” Miss Hatton asked. “Here,” she said, “take it!”
Miss Hatton hurled the cash box at the intruder. The weight of the contents of the box was sufficient to knock the pathetic, hapless robber unconscious. When the cops arrived, the bad guy was arrested, and Miss Hatton deposited the receipts early the next morning. By the way, she was close to eighty years old when she took out the punk who was 60 years her junior.
Here’s to Miss Blanche Hatton!
Grand opening ad in the photo section.
Undated photo added courtesy of Anthony Gomez. Looks like the city didn’t care about the placement of their streetlamp.
1938 photo added too, courtesy of Dom Otero.
By 1964, the Lobo Theatre was being operated by Frontier Theatres, as noted in the August 24 issue of Boxoffice.