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Victory Theater
Minersville, Utah
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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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Victory Theater
Minersville, Utah
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Before 1935
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After 1945
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The Victory Theater showed movies from about 1935 to 1945.1
John Kelsey operated a theater in Minersville in 1930.2
1. "Rural 2", http://movie-theatre.org, listing as sources the Film Weekly Film Journal yearbook 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955; and International motion picture almanac, 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2000
2. Polk's Utah Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1930-1931
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