Roxy Theatre
106 S. Main Street,
Brigham City,
UT
84302
106 S. Main Street,
Brigham City,
UT
84302
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The Roxy Theatre seated 485 people.
It is amazing how many theatres are named ROXY in imitation of the once famous name of the New York City panjandrum of the movie palace: Samual Lionel Rothapfel = “Roxy”. His namesake was the famous ROXY THEATRE in NYC, which outlasted him by only 25 years when it was demolished in 1960. The whole story is in that landmark book “The Best Remaining Seats: The Story of the Golden Age of the Movie Palace” by the late Ben M. Hall in 1961. Various editions of it are sometimes available from www.Amazon.com, but only the first edition contains the color plates.
The Roxy theatre is located at 106 So. Main St., Brigham City, Ut. It opened in 1932 and closed in 1980.
Photos of the former Roxy Theater can be seen here. Click on each photo to enlarge.
I read that this theater opened as the New Grand Theater in 1932 and was renamed the Roxy in 1935.
Here are three photos of the Roxy Theater from the Library of Congress.
This is a 1950 advertisement for the Roxy.
Some History on the Roxy Theatre from the Logan Library.
The New Grand Theatre opened on 25 December 1932, showing Marlene Deitrich in “Blonde Venus.” The theater was built in a space created by knocking down the walls separating the old Rosenbaum Hall from later additions. At least part of the wall and foundation of the old Rosenbaum Hall was left intact and still standing when the theater was demolished in December 1980.
In 1935, new management brought the “Roxy” marquee down from Logan and renamed the theater the Roxy Theatre. The Roxy opened on 23 October 1935 and was equipped with “a Motiograph wide-range talking apparatus and projection machine” and was “one of the very few theaters west of the Mississippi with the modern equipment.”
The last major remodeling of the theater was in 1949, when most of the Art Deco facade was added. In 1980 the Roxy’s facade was considered “the best example of Art Deco style in Brigham City.”
The Rosenbaum Hall was an adobe structure built before 1884 and used as an assembly hall, school, and religious meeting place. In 1897 the building was purchased by the Fishburn family who reinforced the building with brick and operated it as a dry goods store. In 1904, the Fishburns built a one-story brick addition onto the north side of the old two-story hall. In about 1930, one continuous roof was built over the Rosenbaum Hall and the addition and the building was extended 25 feet farther westward. In 1931 the building was purchased with the intention of converting it into a movie theatre, but due to lack of funds for remodeling it was again sold in 1932. The new owners completed the theatre conversion, bricking in the buildings' windows and removing the wall between the old assembly hall and the northern addition.
The Roxy Theatre was demolished in 1979 or 1980 to make way for a Smith’s Food King store.
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