Wyo Theatre
1612 Carey Avenue,
Cheyenne,
WY
82001
1612 Carey Avenue,
Cheyenne,
WY
82001
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I believe this theatre was just called the Wyo Theatre. There is a photo of the Wyo at this link.
http://kilduffs.com/WyomingTheatreTour.html
Some addditional info on the Wyo, it opened as the Wyoming Theatre in 1955, taken over by Fox Intermountain Theatres in 1961 and the name was changed to the Wyo and the theatre closed in 1969.
Boxoffice of November 12, 1949, said that Mrs. Carl Ray, owner of the Princess Theatre, had hired local architect Frederic H. Porter to prepare plans for rebuilding the house. Since the death of her husband, a long-time Cheyenne theater operator who had died in 1948, the theater was being operated by Fox Wyoming Theatres.
Carl Ray had bought the Princess in 1940. Boxoffice doesn’t reveal how long it had been in operation before that, but Chuck1231’s link above has a photo of the Princess and the building it was in looked very old.
The September 23, 1950, issue of Boxoffice said that the Princess had been closed for two months and was being virtually rebuilt, and would reopen under Fox Intermountain’s management as the Wyo Theatre. The Wyo was included on the list of theaters opened in recent months in Boxoffice of December 16, 1950.
There after Boxoffice called the house the Wyo Theatre except for one instance of Wyoming Theatre in a 1964 issue. I think that instance was an error.