Kimble's Peak Three

Opened as the Peak Theatre in 1935, it was built for the Westland Theater group and had 400 seats. They showed first run movies. It was remodeled in the 1950’s and again in the early-1960’s. The auditorium’s main feature were beautiful scenes of the Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak highlighted by backlight. Their main film suppliers were Disney, Columbia, Republic, Monogram and others. They were still running a kids Saturday matinee until the mid-1960’s. When the Westland group went out of business, the Peak Theatre was sold to Commonwealth Theatre. It was eventually turned into a $ house showing re-runs. It was closed in 1988 and was the last downtown theatre.

In 1998, an entrepreneur Kimball came along to show movies the other majors would not touch. His venture was so successful, he had to build a wall between the main auditorium and the balcony and add a second screen. In 2012 he added a third screen in an area where old offices used to be on the second floor near the front of the building. He also remodeled the marquee and it puts out quite a light show at night. The theatre also has a coffee, expresso and wine bar attached to the main lobby. The Twin Peak features independent and foreign films. It also screens some select mainstream films.

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lostmemory on April 16, 2008 at 7:47 pm

Another photo can be seen here.

longislandmovies on April 16, 2008 at 10:04 pm

very very nice!

DonLewis on June 12, 2008 at 9:29 am

A 1985 peek of the Peak in Colorado springs.

nostalaged on January 24, 2009 at 8:20 pm

Have great memories of this classic place from my teen years, I remember that in late 70’s early 80’s they rarely got the big hits, losing out to the Cooper 3, or the Ute 70 usually. I recall at one time the marquis reading an X rated feature,“Catherine & Co” but I think for no more than a week. The last seats in the balcony felt miles away from the screen if you got stuck there as we did for a really bad flick called “Dirty Tricks” w/Kate Jackson & Elliot Gould (I think) Still a few great Rocky Horror Midnight Movie memories. Glad that now they can show top of the line non-commercial features.Hope it stays around for decades more.

lostmemory on April 27, 2009 at 7:20 pm

Here are some 1984 photos:

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kencmcintyre on June 16, 2009 at 10:13 pm

Here is a March 1972 ad from the Colorado Springs Gazette:
http://tinyurl.com/leol2o

lostmemory on June 17, 2009 at 4:24 am

Another ad that’s getting alot of mileage. LOL

kpdennis on May 3, 2010 at 3:18 pm

Some older shots of the Peak – first, from circa 1990:
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And then from February 1997:
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TLSLOEWS on July 10, 2010 at 12:19 pm

Nice photos.

Lee on December 19, 2012 at 2:14 pm

It now has three screens. Upstairs offices were converted into the third screen.