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Dixie Theatre
35 North Main Street
St. George, Utah
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Isis Theater
Salt Lake City, Utah
Open in 1908, the Isis Theatre was one of the first motion picture theaters in Salt Lake City. Its manager in 1910 was Max Florence, who a year later tried to blackmail the LDS Church by selling amateur photos of the Salt Lake Temple interior. Dan Kostopulos, a benefactor of underprivileged children, later renamed it the Broadway Theatre. In a 1976 press conference, Palace Theatre operator Lee Harper complained bitterly of persecution, made acusations of police brutality, threatened the life of a local judge, and accused the LDS Church of being involved with the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luthar King.
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Photographer: Grant Smith
Date: 24 June 2005
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Dixie Theatre
(Wadsworth Theater, Main Street Theater and Ballroom)
35 North Main Street
St. George, Utah
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Before 1930
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After 1999
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The Wadsworth Theater opened before 1930 and was renamed<1> the Dixie Theatre between 1945 and 1950.<2> The theater closed after 1999.<3>
By 2005 the building was known as the Main Street Theater and Ballroom, even though the auditorium was being used as a warehouse. The lobby housed a retail shop and office space for a radio or television station. The upper floor was used as a ballroom.
1. "Chapter 11: Modernization", A History of Washington County, by Douglas D. Alder and Karl F. Brooks, Utah State History CD-ROM
2. "St. George", movie-theatre.org, listing as its sources the Film Weekly Film Journal yearbooks 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and International motion picture almanacs 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2000
3. Southern Utah Telephone Directory, September 1972 through May 1999
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