Colón Theater

The Colon Theatre was located at 507 S. El Paso Street and it seated 1067 people.

The Colon Theater? Was there a Bowel Cinema? Sorry, couldn't resist.

The Colon (which means Columbus) was extant in the 1990s.

The Colon Theater was NOT demolished in the 1960s. In fact I passed by it this morning. It may now be a shoestore, but even the sign is still there!

My mistake. Colon Theater is not a shoestore, it is now called Abelito's Toys (though whoever runs this store spells it "Toy's").

Why can no one learn the proper use of the apostrophe ? IT DRIVES ME N-U-T-S-S-S !!!
Correct: "Adam's Rib". Wrong: "Secret's and
Lie's." I'm surprised Warren didn't harrumph about this one !!!

Frankie, you're back! And right where you belong. Sniffing at colons!

This theatre is in the opening credits for "The Orginal Latin Kings Of Comey" it goes by quick but if you stop the DVD you will see that it is the Colon. Thank You for you time :)

If I had owned this theater back in its heyday... Dunno. Would really have rethought long, hard and diligently for a name change. "Colon" may very stand for "Columbus," but it's way too easy a cheapshot target, as we have seen above.

"Colony?" "Cologne?" "Color?" (as in "De Colores" and in keeping with the Tex-Mex flavor of the city?) Too late for it now, but it was a thought... :(

This is a recent photo of the Colon Theater building.

The Colon was recently twinned - it's now the Semi-Colon.

The Colón opened in 1919 with "Rigoletto" performed by an Italian company. It later showed Mexican movies.

Okay, back to the Colon jokes.

Here are two undated photos from the Library of Congress:
http://tinyurl.com/2ke53f
http://tinyurl.com/34erhq

Wow, it's hard to believe the street in that area is completely clear of both cars and pedestrians. I passed by there this past Saturday and it's always swamped. To be fair, it is very close to a major border crossing.

Here is a more recent look at the Colon.

Was that from a colonoscopy?

OK guys!!! The colon comments were, I have to admit, very funny.However, did it occur to anyone that there is an ACCENT mark between the L and O to change the pronunciation. The theatre name would be pronounced the same as COLOGNE.

I agree. It's high time we cleansed this page of all the colon jokes.

Thanks for the explanation Larry. I would have never thought to pronounce this theaters name as "COLOGNE".

I appreciate someone taking the time to explain the true pronunciation. Since I am of the Colon heritage, I am use to people not pronouncing my name properly. We take pride in our last names and our family ties, that anyone would want it pronounced as it should be. So thank you!

Colon is the Spanish name for Columbus, the explorer. As indicated above, it is pronounced with the accent/emphasis on the second 'o' syllable.

Cristobal Colon is Christopher Columbus. There is also an accent in the first name - over the "o" so that's where the emphasis is.

This theater was open as a movie house in 1976. It was a store when I last saw it in 1995.

Here's a shot of the interior taken Jan 2009. At least they didn't gut out the interior.... The portholes for the projector are still on the back wall. Taken from the balcony.

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h200/siliconsam/Miscellaneous/IMG_5441.jpg

Closer view...

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h200/siliconsam/Miscellaneous/IMG_5442.jpg

The above photos are a sad commentary to what was a pretty decent movie theatre. Very haunting, in a sense.

1980 Night Photo

Here is an October 1972 ad from the El Paso Herald-Post:
http://tinyurl.com/osqyzv