Ritz Cinemas
West Valley City, Utah
Carmike Cinemas opened the Ritz Cinemas and Hollywood Connection Family Entertainment Center on 20 November 1998. The 165,000-square-foot complex was part of an “entertainment mecca” which included the Hale Centre Theatre and the West Valley City E Center (now the Maverick Center.) In addition to 15 movie screens, the Hollywood Connection included a carousel, roller coaster, bumper cars, miniature golf, skating, arcade, restaurant, ice cream parlor, and laser tag. Carmike's goal was to have enough entertainment under one roof so families wouldn't have to go around town.
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Magna Showing Signs of New Life
Deseret News, 26 June 1994, page M1
Article Summary:
“Leo Ware, a 71-year-old engineer and actor, has been working for more than a decade to almost single-handedly renovate the Empress Theater on historic Main Street. Standing amid newlypoured concrete platforms inside the hollow shell of the former movie showplace, he talks about staging live theater productions in the round or showing a short movie for tourists. The theater would seat an audience of 230.”
