Paramount Theatre
1621 Glenarm Place,
Denver,
CO
80202
1621 Glenarm Place,
Denver,
CO
80202
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Previously operated by: Fox Inter-Mountain Theaters Inc., Paramount Pictures Inc., Publix, Wolfberg Theatres
Architects: Temple Hoyne Buell, George W. Leslie Rapp
Firms: Rapp & Rapp
Functions: Concerts
Styles: Art Deco, French Renaissance, Gothic Revival
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
303.623.0106
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News About This Theater
- Oct 24, 2010 — "The Alamo"...Happy 50th!
Opened by Publix on August 29, 1930 with Jack Oakie in “Let’s Go Native”. The 2,078-seat Paramount Theatre was equipped with a twin console Wurlitzer 4 manual 21 ranks organ. By 1950 it was operated by the Fox Intermountain Theaters Inc. chain. The majestic Art Deco-style Paramount Theatre is now a popular concert venue.
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This brought “They Paved Paradise” to mind, looking over cars on the parking lot where the Denver Theatre once sat. Anyone remember the entrance to the “Edelweiss Club” right next to the Paramount? I wonder if they’re still there. Thank goodness for photos to preserve our mental memories of places long gone.
Wasn’t “A Hard Day’s Night” shown at the Paramount? I seem to recall the line that was filled with many of us fans.
Love the interior photo that “lost memory” once posted…sure miss that CT member who gave so much of his time and theatre knowledge to CT!
There’s a theater that’s not on the site which should be. A twin screen arthouse called “The Flicks at Larimer Square”, which I seem to remember being at the Northeast corner of Larimer and 15th St. It had large white windows with caricatures by Al Hirschfeld all over them. I saw many movies there, like “If”, “Performance”, “King of Hearts”, that sort of stuff. How can I add a theater to the site?
Thanks, Chuck.
Reading the comment from 2008 on aspect ratio’s, and have to say that CinemaScope is 2:35 to 1 while Flat is 1:85 to 1. That said scope is supposed to be much wider than flat. I have seen the use of maskings that make scope smaller. This is due to the lenses the theatre is using and their desire to provide the largest image all the time. Some theatre’s have non-moveable maskings and so the flat image fills the entire screen and scope is either cropped on the sides or full width but shorter in height. These are incorrect presentation practices. Both flat and scope should fill the screen top to bottom, but flat should have black maskings on the sides while scope should be much wider with the side maskings open. Unfortunately real showmanship is gone from most Theatres today.
Was once part of Wolfberg Theatres chain-this should be added to the previous operators.
1938 photo and copy added courtesy of The Denver Eye Facebook page.
25+ minute video tour of the Paramount Theatre in Denver from 2017’s Doors Open Denver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSjuN-hggEc&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2—7JJn1TqWl1iEfod6THcgUJNtdV_cpjgD4ED47v1lslmp2jjaGxheBI
Grand opening ad posted.