Silver City Cinema
115 W. Sixth Street,
Leadville,
CO
80461
115 W. Sixth Street,
Leadville,
CO
80461
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Originally the Liberty Bell Theatre opened in 1917. In 1935, it became the Fox Theatre, and later known as the New Fox Theatre.
Today, this theater, still in operation, is called the Silver City Cinema. It is located on Sixth Street near Pine Street. Any further information on this theater would be appreciated.
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According to an article in Boxoffice of November 16, 1946, the Fox Theatre in Leadville had opened as the Liberty Bell Theatre on January 1, 1917, and became part of the Fox circuit on August 1, 1935.
A 1968 Boxoffice item about a new theater then being built in Leadville said that the town had been without a theater since the closing of the Fox. This item didn’t give the date the Fox closed, but I’ve found references to it being in operation as late as 1963. I’ve been unable to find out when it reopened as the Silver City Cinema.
The 1946 article said that Fox was also then operating the Elks Opera House in Leadville, a theater which had opened as the Tabor Opera House in 1879. In addition, the article said, Fox was operating a theater at Climax, Colorado, about 13 miles from Leadville. Other issues of Boxoffice indicate that this was the 200-seat Climax Theatre, opened in late 1938 or early 1937.
The Fox in Leadville is on the right side of this 1942 photo of the a fire consuming buildings located between the Lake County Courthouse and the theater:
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