Paramount Theatre

I’m till trying to find information about the Towne Theater in Denver. It was around in the 60s. I went to a Beatles' movie premiere there. Sally

During that time many of the chains were unloading under performing locations and selling properties as leases were up. So if you where a chain that operated a good number of large theatres in the downtown area of the city. You can’t keep all of them operating like the good old days before people all moved to the burbs. When I was based in Los Angeles. I went & worked many times along the Broadway area theatres. During the mid 80’s all those theatres ran full Fri. thru Sun., I’m talking about over 1500 people a show for 5 shows daily. The chain made lots of money on those days, so Mon thru Thur did fair. Those others kept those theatres open for a few more years. But just two years after that Fri thru Sun, the theatres where only pulling in 50 to 100 a show. And during the week you where lucky to get 10 people for a show with a theatre that seats 2000 people. So as a business you can’t keep operating these large houses at that type of a loss. So you slow down the maintenace on the houses and that happened on many of them. During that time frame NGC sold many theatres from the chain. When MANN Theatre bought the chain a few years later. They cut more theatres that where under performing or leases that where up. Look at the Vogue and Hollywood and Fox Theatre in Hollywood are now. Mann Theatres put in some of the sales agreements that the theatres could not operate as movie theatres for a set number of years. The Denver was lucky to operated afew more years. For a theatre at that time that seated over 2000 people, there was not enough good films to keep it a profit making house.

/theaters/15683/

It was demolished.

ken mc: Your b/w photos posted on Sept. 13 were wonderful to see with 2 vertical marquees across the street in downtown Denver!

Cool photo. You got two theatres for the price of one. haha

House of Blues is gone. Wonder what’s happening these days.

What is the current status of this theatre in the mile high city….Denver?

That’s what I pointed out, as you can see.

1930:
http://tinyurl.com/efghq

1920s:
http://tinyurl.com/ebs5u

It looks like my link directly above was alreadty added by lostmemory. Sorry for the duplication.

I think that I can help brucec with some of the theatres doentoen DENVER. I started working at the FOX RIALTO in 1949 and worker there till 1953. The DENVER Theatre was across the street from the PARAMOUNT, and go around the corner on 16th and Welron street, on the east side of the street was the TELENEWS Theatre which was later nmed the WELTON Theatre, and across the street on the west side was the beautiful ORPHEUM Theatre. Going down 16th street to Curtis, turn siuth towards 15th and the RIALTO Theatre was on the east side. On 16th and curtis, mid block on 16th was the world famous TABOR Theatre facing north. Going towards 17th street north on curtis was the VICTORY Theatre, nest door was the COLORADO and down the street was the PALACE Theatre. Crossing 17th on the west side was the PLAZA Theatre which was later named rhe ROUND UP that showed only westerns. On 18th and curtis on the east side wsas the GEM Theatre, coming south to 17th street on the east side was the ISIS Theatre. Coming up curtis stree going south in the middleof the block on the east side was the STATE Theatre. In 1951 FOX built the NEW CENTRE Theatre I believe it was Broadway and 16th. There was the BROADWAY Theatre on 18th and Broadway and going down to 18th and California was the DENHAM Theatre. I hope this was easy to understand. posted by richard dudley on Nov 1, 2005 at 8:35pm.

A recent picture is on www.preservationdirectory.com/photodatabase_theaters.html