utahtheaters.info
  
  •Home •Theaters •News •Recent  
 
Chapparal Drive-In Theatre
810 South Main Street
Ephraim, Utah
•Main Page
•Photos
•Sign Guestbook
•Facts & Figures  

Empress Theatre
Magna, Utah

The name 'Empress' is spelled out in with white light bulbs, with a border of red lights.

The Empress Theatre
has opened once again! 
9104 West 2700 South
Magna, Utah
801-347-7373
Empress Theatre

    
 
The OHPAA group continues it's renovating efforts, with an expanded parking area now ready to use and two addtitional rooms now painted!   We have also been officially designated a Non'profit Corporation by the IRS!  The Empress is also the filming location for a new Disney Movie  ("Dadnapped") which will be aired on the Disney Channel next spring.  We are very excited!
  
And come see the new carpet in our lobby! It's gorgeous!
   
 Things are happening fast at the Empress.  You'll have to hurry to keep up!

 
 
  Home   »  Theaters   »  Chapparal Drive-In Theatre  »  Main Page
   
 
A topographical map from 1966 shows the location of a drive-in movie theater on the outskirts of Ephraim.

Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
Date: 1 July 1966

Chapparal Drive-In Theatre
(Amity Drive-In Theatre)
 
810 South Main Street
Ephraim, Utah
 
Status:
 Demolished 
Open:
Before 1963  
Closed:
After 1970  
 
The Amity Drive-In Theatre opened before 19631 and was located south of Ephraim, at about 810 South Main Street.  By 1970 the theater had been renamed the Chapparal Drive-In Theatre.2  The theater was owned at one point by Wilford Steiman.  In 2005 all that was left of the drive-in was a short brick wall and a sign along the edge of the highway.


1. Richfield Telephone Directory, September 1963
2. Richfield Telephone Directory, September 1970