The Crest Theater was popular in the 1950s and early 1960s, but attendance began to drop after a television translaltor facility was built near Filmore after October 1957.

In the late 1960s the Crest Theater burned and the building was demolished.^[1]

1. "Chapter 10: Through the 1970s", A History of Millard County, by Edward Leo Lyman, Utah History Suite CD-ROM