Lux Theater

lostmemory on July 20, 2006 at 4:28 am

There is a small photo of the Lux theater on this website.

lostmemory on August 25, 2006 at 6:57 am

Here is a photo of the Lux theater.

kencmcintyre on November 17, 2006 at 5:48 am

Here are some photos I took in July 2006:
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Chuck1231 on April 15, 2009 at 4:52 pm

1981 photo of the Lux Theatre.
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Joe Vogel on May 19, 2009 at 9:48 pm

The September 18, 1937, issue of Boxoffice had this to say about the Lux Theatre: “Souris & Ade are opening the Lux at Grants, N.M., a house of 518 seats. The town has been without a theatre since 1930.”

Another item in the same issue lists various pieces of equipment and furnishings installed at the Lux by the Denver branch of National Theatre Supply Company. Neither item indicates whether the Lux was new construction or a renovation of an older theater— perhaps the one that had closed in 1930.

An item in the October 11, 1947, issue of Boxoffice said that C.E. Means, owner of the Lux Theatre, was planning a new theater for Grants. To be designed by Albuquerque architect Gordon Ferguson, and to seat 500, the new house would be called the El Sol. I find no other mentions of this theater, and don’t know if it was actually built or not.

J.C. West, who would later build the West Theatre in Grants, bought the Lux from C.E. Means in 1950. He might have closed the Lux for a time in the 1960s, as the September 14, 1964, issue of Boxoffice mentions him as the operator of the West Theatre and the Sahara and Trails Drive-Ins in Grants, but makes no mention of the Lux. Then the January 30, 1967, issue of Boxoffice said that J.C. West had opened the Lux after an extensive remodeling. He intended to operate the house with an art film policy.

West was still operating the Lux as late as February, 1970, when the Boxoffice issue of the 16th said that the house had to be closed for one night due to a fire in a furnace blower. That’s the last mention of the Lux I’ve found in Boxoffice. J.C. West is mentioned once more, but only as the operator of the West Theatre, in 1972.