Broadway Theater
65 E. Broadway,
Salt Lake City,
UT
84111
65 E. Broadway,
Salt Lake City,
UT
84111
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The Isis Theatre was located in downtown Salt Lake City. The theatre was later known as the Broadway Theatre and the Towne Theatre.
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This is a larger version of the photo at the top of this page.
1983 photo of the Broadway Theatre.
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Shouldn’t this be listed as the Broadway Theaster, aka Isis, Towne? Broadway was the last known name for the theatre.
I found mentions of the Broadway Theatre in various issues of Boxoffice Magazine from 1941 to 1960. The earliest mention I’ve found for the Towne Theatre is 1965 (it was showing Russ Meyer’s soft-core hit “Fanny Hill” at the time.) I’ve found no mentions in Boxoffice of the Isis in Salt Lake at all.
However, the ever-popular Utah Theatres web site has a whole page on the place, with still more aka’s, and the sad but useful information that it has been demolished. There’s also a discrepancy between the closing date of 1976 at the top of their page and the text below that which says it was known as the Broadway Theatre (the third time it had used that name) from 1976 until 1984. The 1983 American Classic Images photo supports the text.
But, yes, it should be the Broadway Theatre, with aka’s of Isis Theatre, Colony Theatre, Tower Midtown Theatre, Towne Theatre, and Palace Theatre.
The Broadway was directly across the street from the Auerbach’s Department Store. Both are gone, where the Broadway stood is now a new office center for Charle Schwab and where Auerbach’s was there is a new office building. Not many of the older buildings left on 300 South at all. On the corner of 300 South and State St. was the Centre Theatre, gone also. Downtown SLC used to be a hub of theatres but mostly all gone. I think the Capitol, Utah and the old Rialto are the only ones still standing of the original downtown theatres.
In the early 70’s adult movies were shown at this theater. Deep Throat and The Devil and Miss Jones played there as a double feature.