Skyline Theatre
606 Main Street,
Canon City,
CO
81212
606 Main Street,
Canon City,
CO
81212
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This theater reopened July 28, 2023:
Canon City, CO: Skyline Theatre Reopening July 28, 2023 [Jul 27, 2023]
Once operated by Commonwealth Theatres.
The Cañon City Daily Record wrote on Aug. 9, 2019 that Chuck and Marianne James planned to reopen the Skyline in the spring of 2020. “The Jameses were the third owners of the Skyline … (when they) first owned it from 1993 to 2004.” They bought it this time in May 2019 from the Nothdurft family, which owns the local 4 Mile Cinema. “The Jameses agreed not to run it as a commercial operation for a year.”
Motion Picture Herald, Dec. 11, 1948: “Spontaneous combustion caused explosion on coalbin in Skyline, Canon City, Colo. Crowd marched out, show resumed in 20 minutes.”
The status of the Skyline should be Closed. It closed in September 2017 and its projection equipment was moved to the 4 Mile Cinema. Story here.https://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2017/09/19/skyline-theater-closes-its-doors/amp/
The Skyline now operates as a first-run house in the digital age. Driving through Canon City today, they are playing X-Men: Apocalypse.
A photo from July 2010:
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This theater is now operating as a second-run, discount theater: View link
Here’s the Skyline in 1989 – a Colorado outpost of Gotham City!
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A 1985 view of the Skyline Theatre in Canon City here and a 1987 view here.
The Skyline Theater was built, as a Movie Theater, in 1918. It still operates, showing first run movies. It now seats 256. We still have the balcony(not in use by the public). It was remodeled about 5 years ago by the previous owners. Looks great. They put alot of care into it.
The Skyline Theatre is listed in Film Daily Yearbook editions from at least 1941. Seating capacity is given as 748 or 750.