Lobo Theater

3013 Central Avenue NE,
Albuquerque, NM 87106

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Previously operated by: Frontier Theatres, Paramount Pictures Inc.

Functions: Church

Phone Numbers: Box Office: 505.265.4759
Manager: 505.268.7782

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Lobo Theater Lobby, 1945

The Lobo Theater opened on August 19, 1938. By the early-1940’s it was operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary Hoblitzelle & O'Donnell. It reached out to area students and was a premiere venue for independent, classic and cult films. It also hosted concerts with local bands. By 1964 it was operated by Frontier Theatres.

The Lobo Theater was closed on August 4, 2000 and for lease, which was taken up by a church.

Contributed by Martin McCaffery, Roxanne Bly

Recent comments (view all 15 comments)

STELLARB
STELLARB on September 15, 2007 at 5:29 pm

I know the people operating it when i was last there in ‘96 worked very hard to keep it running. I always thought it was the pride of Nob Hill. It’s a shame if the area can’t support it any more.

Don Lewis
Don Lewis on April 26, 2008 at 7:50 am

A 1974 view of the Lobo Theater in Albuquerque.

rbrtptrck
rbrtptrck on October 2, 2008 at 11:42 am

I find it appropriate that the Lobo should become a church, for it is where I attended a dozen showings of “Gigi,” which I certainly worship.

kpdennis
kpdennis on April 25, 2009 at 12:18 am

The Lobo getting ready for the Oscars in 1995:
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Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on January 19, 2012 at 11:49 am

Nice pictures guys thanks.

NS7X
NS7X on March 11, 2012 at 3:20 am

Ms. Blanche Hatton, as the family story goes, was the manager of the Lobo. For about four decades. (She was in the theater business when Roentgen discovered x-rays (that’s a joke), and didn’t retire until she was well into her nineties.)

Anyway, back to the story. Miss Hatton was closing the Lobo late one night(she was alone in the theater) when, with the “petty cash box” in hand, she was met with an armed intruder in the Lobo lobby.

“Give me the cash!” the robber demanded.

“You want the cash?” Miss Hatton asked. “Here,” she said, “take it!”

Miss Hatton hurled the cash box at the intruder. The weight of the contents of the box was sufficient to knock the pathetic, hapless robber unconscious. When the cops arrived, the bad guy was arrested, and Miss Hatton deposited the receipts early the next morning. By the way, she was close to eighty years old when she took out the punk who was 60 years her junior.

Here’s to Miss Blanche Hatton!

rivest266
rivest266 on August 18, 2013 at 4:48 pm

Grand opening ad in the photo section.

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on October 29, 2015 at 6:35 pm

Undated photo added courtesy of Anthony Gomez. Looks like the city didn’t care about the placement of their streetlamp.

1938 photo added too, courtesy of Dom Otero.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on May 5, 2022 at 6:39 pm

By 1964, the Lobo Theatre was being operated by Frontier Theatres, as noted in the August 24 issue of Boxoffice.

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