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Elks Cinema
139 East South Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah
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Adams Shakespearean Theatre
Cedar City, Utah
In the early 1960s, business owners worried that the proposed Interstate 15 would divert tourists from Cedar City as they travelled to Zions and Bryce Canyon national parks. Fred C. Adams, a professor at Southern Utah State College, thought a theater festival might encourage passing tourists to exit the new freeway. For its first season in 1962, the Utah Shakespeare Festival used a makeshift outdoor platform as a stage, with the audience seated in folding chairs on the lawn. In 1977, the festival built the Adams Shakespearean Theatre, a replica of the original Globe Theatre.
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Photographer: Grant Smith
Date: 23 December 2002
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Elks Cinema
139 East South Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah
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Status: |
Closed |
Auditoriums: |
2 |
Open: |
16 December 1977
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Closed: |
1985
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The Cooper-Highland circuit of Denver built the twin-screen Elks Cinema in the old Elks Lodge on South Temple Street. The theater may have opened a few weeks after 22 December 1976, which is when the theater chain opened the Flick at Trolley Square.1
In 1979, the Utah / U.S. Film Festival (which later became the Sundance Film Festival) was held at the Elks Theater.2
The Elks Cinema closed after 1985.3
1. "Eight new screens added to theaters", Deseret News , 23 December 1976 , Page C7
2. "The little Festival that could", Deseret News, 15 January 1998
3. Salt Lake City Classified Business Directory, July 1978 through August 1985
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