Globe Theater
141 N. Broad Street,
Globe,
AZ
85501
141 N. Broad Street,
Globe,
AZ
85501
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The Globe can be seen on the left in this 1941 photo:
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This page has some pictures of the theater after the fire:
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Please contact me with any Globe or Miami Arizona photos, postcards, business directories, yearbooks, signage, keys, letterheads, advertising, programs from football games theaters plays. Please contact me at or by phone at 602-723-5035.
Close up of the GLOBE sign and marquee before the fire.
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I would be interested in buying any original anitque photos of the Globe Theater or any other theaters in Globe or Miami. Please email or call 602-723-5035.
I only have two (neither exactly great.) The theater was one of the things I wanted to get more shots of, but fate intervened. There are a couple of small pics (not mine) on this page: [url]http://www.roadsidepeek.com/roadusa/southwest/arizona/aztheater/index.htm[/url], including one from 1945 that shows what the marquee looked like then. Much more ornate than the one I knew….
My pics (the thumbnails are clickable to get the full-sized photo):
The Pioneer Hotel where the fire started is the tall building to the left as you face the theater.
The entrance to the theater: the metal columns and wall skin around the poster were made of native copper (Globe’s a copper-mining town.) I love walking into a theater through a hallway like this. It really makes you feel as if you’re entering some hidden palace. You can see the box office on the left.
And this is the architect’s rendering of what the new theater will look like:
It fits the look of downtown, but, to me, it looks more like a storefront than a theater. I’m glad they saved the marquee, though.
Does anyone have any other Globe Theater photos?
After the devastating fire, Globe-Miami’s own Globe Theater is being rebuilt. The theater will be built over the lot of the building next store that was the Trust/Hotel building. The new GLOBE will be built with four screens and stadium seating. A brick face will surround the theater using some of the original bricks from the Hotel. The marquee is being spruced up a bit; the original marquee was changed in the 1960’s-1970, but is being put back to the original design with neon lignting all around the historic sign. After the restoration of the marquee, the marquee will be place on the corner of Broad and Cedar Streets. This an exiciting move forward for this historic small-town community.
My 2005 photograph of the GLOBE View link
Recently, I posted a an old theater that was in Globe a long time ago, the Alden Theater. Please submit any photos you have of the Alden. Thanks.
Any updates?
People are working on grants from the state to make the GLOBE happen again. To keep the same historic feel. So far they have gotten $2800…hopefully they will get more.
People are working on grants from the state to make the GLOBE happen again. To keep the same historic feel. So far they have gotten $2800…hopefully they will get more.
What style is the marquee? Is there a word for the unique type of marquee?
Night time photo of the GLOBE before the fire.
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The Globe Theatre is a real treasure to the small-town community. All citizens know we must hold tight to their bussiness, their livelihoods. The loss runs deep. Pray for the people who lost businesses in this fire.
A short update on the Globe fire, from Globe’s weekly paper, The Arizona Silver Belt: View link. I wish the online version of the story included the photos in the print version, which included one of the “old art deco mural” found when firefighters tore down a false ceiling in the lobby. Admittedly, the modern incarnation of the Globe wasn’t a glamorous movie house, but I loved it because it was the only one I personally know that was still serving its original function as strictly a movie theater. Others I’ve known — such as The Ritz in Sanford FL, The Paramount in Seattle, and The Everett Theater in Everett WA — have been restored but now serve more as multipurpose halls with only occasional films, if any. The Globe was still a thriving business; its loss leaves this pretty much isolated small mountain town and its neighbors with no indoor theater closer than Mesa, about an hour away down a mountain highway. My worst fear is that the owner replaces it with a crackerbox multiplex with screens not much bigger than a wide-screen tv.
Bad news about the Globe…. There was a fire in the building next door early this morning, and the fire dept. is saying that the theater is also a total loss. It doesn’t look too bad from outside — the marquee’s even intact — but, behind the facade, the roof is apparently gone and there’s extensive smoke and water damage. We just moved to Globe at the end of March and had only gotten to see one movie at the theater yet, but had had hopes of seeing many more over the years. i had planned to try to get some interior photos to post here, but I think I waited a little too long. Another one gone…. :(
The Globe theatre actually dates back to about l917. It purportedly had a Wurlitzer photoplayer for accompanying silent films. I suspect the current front area has been remodelled considerably from the original design. Don Story
Recent photo here:
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The Film Daily Yearbook 1941 and 1950 give a seating capacity of what was known as then as the Fox Globe Theatre as 648.