El Rey Theatre
620 Central Avenue SW,
Albuquerque,
NM
87102
620 Central Avenue SW,
Albuquerque,
NM
87102
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This historic former movie theater opened on June 27, 1941. By the mid-1970’s it was known as the Reel Theatre. It is now a nightclub. It is located on the old Route 66.
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Ross Melnick
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A 1974 photograph, after it had been renamed Reel Theatre:
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Ken, don’t you mean “before” it had been renamed El Rey?
Don, It opened as the El Rey Theatre (in 1940’s and 1950’s editions of Film Daily Yearbook), then (I believe) its final times as a movie theatre it was re-named Reel Theatre. It has now gone back to its original name El Rey.
Ah, that clears that up. Things are never as simple as they seem around here!
I drove through Albuquerque last year with this theater on a list of places to photograph. Somehow I missed it.
Some recent fire damage at the El Rey Theater.
More photos that were taken after the fire can be seen here.
Here is a March 1948 ad from the Albuquerque Journal:
http://tinyurl.com/4ldxml
This is a recent shot of the marquee.
El Rey Theater photo
The El Rey in 1995.
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