Cooper 1-2-3 Cinemas
17 S. Nevada Avenue,
Colorado Springs,
CO
80903
17 S. Nevada Avenue,
Colorado Springs,
CO
80903
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The Cooper Foundation opened the theatre on the site of the old Tompkin Theatre.
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William Gabel
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Thanks William hopefully more will be added.
This opened as Cooper 70 in November 1963 and became Cooper 123 on December 24th, 1970. The grand opening celebration for this cinema was cancelled when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Cooper sold it to Commonwealth in 1975. I think it closed in the late 1980’s.
The Cooper Foundation’s web site once had a PDF with a history of Cooper Theaters, but it is no longer available. The PDF said that the Cooper 70 and the Ute 70 projects were both designed by Mel C. Glatz of Mel C. Glatz & Associates, in association with architect Maynard Rorman. The same team designed the conversion of the Cooper into a triplex.
Ah, the Cooper 1,2,3. My grandmother took me to see movies there in the early 80’s. It did close its doors in the late 1980’s, about 87' or 88' I believe. The building sat vacant in its original state, being used only for Postal Vehicle parking, until the late 90’s when it was completly remodeled into a small shopping center with a fast food restaraunt. In 2008 it was completly demolished minus a few walls and the foundation and is now a high end buisness plaza.