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245 Fort Douglas Blvd.
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
532-2766, 581-1251
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San Juan Theatre
Blanding, Utah

LeRay Alexander, a school teacher and World War II veteran, opened the first commercial movie theater in Blanding on 23 August 1946, despite opposition and competing plans from local leaders.   Dr. Wesley R. Bayles helped fund the $11,000 showhouse.  Over 60 years later, the San Juan Theatre continues bring movies to the county it was named after.

 
 
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Fort Douglas Post Theatre
245 Fort Douglas Blvd.
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
532-2766, 581-1251
 
Status:
Open 
Open:
Before 1940  
 
The Fort Douglas Theater showed movies about 1940.1


1. "Excel fle", movietheatre.org, December 2005