Pecos Theatre

Here is a direct link to the photo that Chad Hauris mentions on 11/1/07.
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Randy, I think the Pecos is closed, there are no movie listings for the theatre and the phone is no longer in service.

My memory of the Pecos Theater goes back to January 2, 1983. I was on my way to my first active duty military assignment and had just driven 1,100 miles. I ran into the tail end of a snow storm in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle and did not break free of the storm until Amarillo, TX. As soon as the sun barely plied the eastern horizon I pulled into Santa Rosa, NM and convinced the elderly desk clerks at the Motel 6 to allow me to check in early.

After carting my luggage to my room I felt wide awake enough to drive into town where I parked on, what I thought was, a side street. As I strolled down the sidewalk toward a small grocery store I chanced to pass the front of the theater. Having previously worked at a cinema for years I thought it would be a great idea to catch a movie that night. Alas the theater’s posted schedule indicated that it was only open a couple days of the week and Sunday January 2nd was not one of those days.

April 2009 photo of the Pecos Theatre, click to enlarge.
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Gabe your link must be broken.

My buddy and I got stranded in New Mexico on our way home from Phoenix, I wanted to make sure we at least made it to a town with a movie theatre, we didn’t, but the on the way home we decided to drop by this place anyway… It was a sad discovery to see it was closed.

The outside looked to be in very nice condition. We peeked in the window and there was a one sheet for The Blind Side in the now playing poster case. Sign in the window said CLOSED PERMANENTLY.

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1984 photo of the Pecos Theatre. In 1984 this theatre was known as the Rodeo Theatre.
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Here is another photo from 2007.

Here’s a 2006 view of the PECOS – operator Rudy Sanchez owns the truck: http://www.rushcreekgallery.com/lfop/index.html