Exterior Photos - Cottonwood Mall Theatre

Behind the single story lobby rises a much taller building housing two of the auditoriums. On the left is a detached sign with an attraction board. - , Utah

Looking at the theater from the southwest, with a telephone pole and stop sign in the middle of the view.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

Looking across a street at the theater, with an unobstructed view of the building and a sky clear of telephone lines. - , Utah

A more pleasant view of the Cottonwood Mall Theatre, with an annoying telephone pole removed, curtesy of Photoshop.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

Looking across a narrow lawn and a parking lot at the 1977 addition, with the sign on the left and the original building on the right. - , Utah

A view of the theater's sign, with the 1977 addition in the background. The yellow curb in the foreground is for the street leading to Cottonwood Mall. Beyond a bit of lawn is a drive-through drop-off for the theater.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

Five concrete planter boxes in front of the building hold pruned bushes. The single floor lobby has a brick exterior with several pillars holding up a covered walkway along the front. A taller, white brick building rises behind it. - , Utah

The original theater building features a single-story lobby, with a three-line attraction board. Behind it rises the original auditorium, split into two screens in 1976. In the foreground is what appears to be a drop-off lane.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

Looking across a lawn and parking lot at the theater. In front of the original building, on the right, are five concrete planters with small bushes. Behind the single-story lobby, the original building rises to twice the height. On the left, the 1977 addition sits further back and is only as high as the lobby. - , Utah

A panorama of the front facade, stitched together from two photos. Some gaps in the combined image have been filled using Photoshop generative fill, increasing the amount of lawn in foreground.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

A view of the theater from the northwest. The addition, in the foreground on the left, has its own attraction board with titles and showtimes. In the background on the right is the original lobby, with a separate attraction board. - , Utah

In early 1977, an addition on the north side of the original building provided two additional auditoriums. The addition is set back from the original lobby and lacks a covered walkway.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

Near the north side of the small front parking lot is a sign for Carmike Cinemas. On the attraction board are Zoolander, Legally Blonde, The Others, and Jay & Silent Bob.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

A tall white building with two reinforced columns is in the background on the left. On the right, in the foreground, is the edge of the single-story addition. - , Utah

Looking at the theater from the north. The 1977 addition is on the right, with a pair of exit doors halfway along the rear wall. The original building is in the background on the left. The top of an original auditorium exit is visble to the right of a garbage dumpster.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

Across a parking lot stands a large, tall building on the left, with a much shorter building on its right. - , Utah

Looking southwest at the rear of the theater, with the original building on the left. The 1977 addition, on the right, was built back as far as the exit doors for the original auditorium.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

Down a short flight of exterior stairs is a landing with dark brown exit doors on the left. - , Utah

These exit doors are original to the main building, but now service the smaller of two auditoriums. The exterior wall on the right is for the 1977 addition.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

The tall exterior wall of a cinderblock building painted white. Four reinforced columns divide the wall into fifth. Two exit doors stand just to the right of the third column from the left. - , Utah

The east wall of the original building. The two exit doors were added when the original auditorium was split. The larger auditorium occupied slightly more than three fifths of the original.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

A slightly blurry photo of trees growing in front of a river, with a parking lot in the foreground. - , Utah

At the northeast edge of the parking lot, trees grow along the side of Big Cottonwood Creek.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

A short flight of exterior steps leads to a set of dark brown double doors on the right. Beyond the stairwell, a path continues along the building toward the front. - , Utah

The original auditorium exit doors on the south side of the building.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

On the right is a brick wall with two sets of glass doors in the background. On the left are six brick pillars. Four sets of lights are mounted in a white ceiling overhead. Sunlight washes out the far end of the walkway. - , Utah

Looking across the covered walkay at the front of the original lobby. The first set of doors is the exit, while the entrance doors are closer to the end.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

Looking at the front of a building from an angle, with a telephone and a stop sign in the center of the photo. - , Utah

The front facade of the original lobby, with Zoolander in DTS and Legally Blonde on the attraction board.
Grant Smith
28 September 2001

A black and white aerial photo shows the west end of Cottonwood Mall in the top, with another building between it and the theater at the bottom of the photo. - , Utah

The Cottonwood Mall Theater is shown at the bottom of this 1997 aerial photo. The lower right portion of the building is the original auditorium, which was split into two theaters in 1976. The lobby is on the west end of the building. Two additional auditoriums were added on the northeast end of the building in 1977. The southeast end of the Cottonwood Mall is pictured in the top of the photo.
Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, 12 September 1997