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Roxy Theatre
106 South Main Street
Brigham City, Utah
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Vernal Theatre
Vernal, Utah
Deward H. and Alson A. Shiner opened the Vernal Theatre on 29 March 1946, showing Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert in No Time for Love. The grand opening ad described it as “eastern Utah's finest moving picture theatre,” with “oceans of room” and “530 comfortable, body-form seats.” The theater was built on the old confectionary lot.
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Photo by John Enlow, 6 November 1980, Library of Congress
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Roxy Theatre
(New Grand Theatre)
106 South Main Street
Brigham City, Utah
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Status: |
Demolished |
Total
Seats:
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485 |
Open: |
25 December 1932
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Closed: |
1979 or 1980
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Demolished: |
December 1980
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The New Grand Theatre opened on 25 December 1932, showing Marlene
Deitrich in "Blonde Venus." The theater was built in a space created by
knocking down the walls separating the old Rosenbaum Hall from later
additions. At least part of the wall and foundation of the old
Rosenbaum Hall was left intact and still standing when the theater was
demolished in December 1980.1
In 1935, new management brought the "Roxy" marquee down from Logan and renamed the theater the Roxy Theatre.1
The Roxy opened on 23 October 1935 and was equipped with "a Motiograph
wide-range talking apparatus and projection machine" and was "one of
the very few theaters west of the Mississippi with the modern
equipment."2
The last major
remodeling of the theater was in 1949, when most of the Art Deco facade
was added. In 1980 the Roxy's facade was considered "the best example
of Art Deco style in Brigham City."3
The
Rosenbaum Hall was an adobe structure built before 1884 and used as an
assembly hall, school, and religious meeting place. In 1897 the
building was purchased by the Fishburn family who reinforced the
building with brick and operated it as a dry goods store. In 1904, the
Fishburns built a one-story brick addition onto the north side of the
old two-story hall. In about 1930, one continuous roof was built over
the Rosenbaum Hall and the addition and the building was extended 25
feet farther westward. In 1931 the building was purchased with the
intention of converting it into a movie theatre, but due to lack of
funds for remodeling it was again sold in 1932. The new owners
completed the theatre conversion, bricking in the buildings' windows
and removing the wall between the old assembly hall and the northern
addition.1
The Roxy Theatre was demolished in 1979 or 1980 to make way for a Smith's Food King store.
1. "Roxy Theatre, Major Alterations and Additions", HABS No. UT-102, Library of Congress
2. "Logan, Utah Dateline", The Logan Library, http://www.logan.lib.ut.us/library/archives/loganhist.html, February 2004
3. "Architectural Form", HABS No. UT-102, Library of Congress
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