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Rains Theatre
Rains, Utah
 
Status:
Demolished 
Open:
Between 1915 and 1925  
 

C. M. Stringham managed a theater which showed films three nights a week in Rains.[1]  The name of the theater is not known.

Rains, a mining town west of Helper, was founded in 1915 and closed in 1958.  It was named after L. F. Rains, a prominent mining engineer in the early 1900s.[2]


There are photos of Rains on ripleysghosttowns.com.


1. “C. M. Stringham Family to Move to Ogden, Utah”, 1 October 1925, News Advocate
2. “Rains”, ghosttowns.com, September 2006