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Ad for <span style='font-style: italic;'>The Thunderbolt</span> at the Ides Theater.  "The Talkies  have come to Moab!  Hear and See!  Grand Opening, Saturday-Sunday, August 3-4." - , Utah
1 August 1929
Ides Theatre

20 North Main Street
Moab, Utah

(Before 1920 - After 1955)

The Ides Theatre opened before 1920.[1]  In the 1930s the Ides Theatre moved from the old Woodmen of the World Hall to its own permanent building.[2]  The Ides Theatre continued to show movies through about 1955.[3]

1. Polk’s Utah Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1920-1921, 1922-1923, 1927-1928, 1930-1931
2. "Chapter 10: World War I Era to the Start of the Great Depression", A History of Grand County, by Richard A. Firmage
3. "Rural 3", movie-theatre.org, listing as sources the Film Weekly Film Journal yearbook 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955; and International motion picture almanac, 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2000