Lobo Theater
3013 Central Avenue NE,
Albuquerque,
NM
87106
3013 Central Avenue NE,
Albuquerque,
NM
87106
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The Lobo Theater opened on August 19, 1938. It reached out to area students and was a premiere venue for independent, classic and cult films. It also hosted concerts with local bands.
The Lobo Theater was closed on August 4, 2000 and for lease, which was taken up by a church.
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Martin McCaffery, Roxanne Bly
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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.
This is still a church. Some interior photos are on the church website. Here is a recent exterior view.
Lobo Theater photo
The Lobo getting ready for the Oscars in 1995:
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1983 Photo
2007 marquee photo of the Lobo.
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Photos of the Lobo Theatre.
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Nice pictures guys thanks.
A Photo I took of the LOBO Theatre back in Nov of 2008 .. Randy A Carlisle – Historical Photographer
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!