Huntridge Performing Arts Theatre
1208 E. Charleston Boulevard,
Las Vegas,
NV
89104
1208 E. Charleston Boulevard,
Las Vegas,
NV
89104
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Opened on October 10, 1944 and designed by architect by S. Charles Lee, the Huntridge Theatre was a popular movie theatre for over forty years. After closing in 1977 it was twinned with a dividing wall built down the center of the auditorium. It re-opened in 1980, but closed only months later. Re-opened in 1983, it closed as a movie theatre in 1989.
The Huntridge reopened in 1993 as a concert hall and performing arts venue off of the Las Vegas Strip. The auditorium was restored to a single space, but all seating was removed
The theater was closed on December 31, 2001 and was taken over by an adjoining retail store to be used as storage.
The theater has been rebuilt and at least externally restored, and it reopened as a concert venue for mostly alternative/metal acts in 2002, but closed in July 2004 for ‘remodeling’.
The Huntridge Theatre was placed on the State Register of Historic Places and has a covenant placed on it, that it cannot be destroyed until 2017.
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I saw an exterior view of the Huntridge at the very beginning of your video. The video is basically a campaign ad and not about the Huntridge theater itself. If one political ad can be shown here than this site would be obligated to run ads for all politicians. That is not the purpose of this website. I can’t vote in Nevada either, but I wish you luck with your campaign.
This is the registration form for the National Register of Historic Places.
The small concrete block wall to the right of the entrance has been demolished, and there is a Bobcat parked between the fence and the front doors.
You can listen to a March 10, 2008 interview with preservationist Josh Geidel, owner Eli Mizrachi, and State Historic Preservation Officer Ron James at KNPR.org.
Here is a 1970 ad.
I added a recent photo. Obviously the building has shown no improvement.
This is a 2009 photo.
A fading beauty. Time and neglect is taking its toll on this icon in that currently resembles something used and discarded.. The Huntington resides in an area of the city way off the beaten path and far from the siren songs of the endless highway of slot machines. Photos from 2011: 1,
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My Father, Harry Zumar, was the General Manager of the Nevada Theatre Corporation which ran the: Huntridge, Fremont, and Guild Theatres in the 1960s and 1970s. He passed away January 12 of this year at the age of 97.
It breaks my heart to see the current condition of this building which holds so many great memories for me —including my Father’s going away party when he left the organization to move to California in 1973.
A plan to expand to use the existing lobby space as a pawn shop was nixed by the Las Vegas planning commission on January 10, 2012.