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Family Center Trolley Theatre
1122 East Fort Union Blvd
Midvale, Utah
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SCERA Showhouse
Orem, Utah
In 1989, Richard Cook, president of Buena Vista Pictures, said of the SCERA, "It's our favorite theater . . . it is a spectacular place to see a motion picture. It gives the kind of presentation that we wish all our films would play in. It's big, it's clean, it has wonderful sound, great sight-lines. And they've been so loyal to our company and exhibited our pictures for so many years.''
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Family Center Trolley Theatre
1122 East Fort Union Blvd
Midvale, Utah
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Status: |
Demolished |
Auditoriums: |
4 |
Total
Seats:
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1400 |
Open: |
21 December 1976
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Closed: |
4 September 1997
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The four-screen Family Center Trolley opened on Tuesday evening, 21
December 1976, with a special premiere of "Joe Panther," a film made by
Utahns in Florida. "The opening of the new theater drew a large number
of civic, religious and educational leaders as well as theater-men, who
said the theater is 'interesting because of the graphics' by Dale
Christensen, manager of Trolley Square theaters, as well as lovely and
comfortable."1
The
Family Center Trolley was similar in design to the Trolley Square
Theaters, featuring "nostalgia in decorations and has old-time film
projectors and graphics of old-time film celebrities".1
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two larger theaters had 400 seats each, while the two smaller ones had
300 seats. Groundbreaking for the $1 million theater was on 15 June
1976.2
The first regular
engagements to show at the theater were "Bugsy Malone," "Baker's Hawk,"
"Shout at the Devil," and "Murder By Death."
In April 1990, Cineplex Odeon changed the Family Center Trolley from a first-run theater to a dollar theater.3 The theater closed on 4 September 1997. It was later demolished and replaced by a Babies R Us store.
1. "Eight new screens added to theaters", Deseret News , 23 December 1976, Page C7
2. "Theaters Plan to Expand", 30 May 1976, Salt Lake Tribune, page 10B
3. "Family Center Cinemas Becomes a 'Dollar Theater'", Deseret News, 15 April 1990, page E10
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