Alley Theatre
212-216 W. San Francisco Street,
Santa Fe,
NM
87501
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Previously operated by: Gibraltar Enterprises Inc.
Functions: Retail
Styles: Pueblo Deco
Previous Names: Burro Alley Theatre
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Built on the site of the 1880’s Herlow’s Hotel on W. San Francisco Street. The Burro Alley Theatre was opened on September 2, 1939 with Boris Karloff in “Juggernaut” & Gordon Oliver in “The Marines are Here” The 500-seat theatre, by the 1950’s known simply as the Alley Theatre, closed in 1968, screening Spanish-language films in its last years.
The theatre was converted into a furniture store after it closed, and in the 1990’s was divided into two small retail shops.
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Here is a November 1950 ad from the Santa Fe New Mexican:
http://tinyurl.com/rds5zd
The March 24, 1939, issue of The Film Daily announced the start of construction on this theater:
A photo of the Alley Theatre appears on page 107 of Santa Fe: A Walk Through Time, by Kingsley Hammett (Google Books preview.) The building, directly across San Francisco Street from the Lensic Theatre, currently houses two retail shops.September 2nd, 1939 grand opening ad in the photo section.
Grand opening ad Burro Alley opening Sat, Sep 2, 1939 – 3 · () · Newspapers.com
I am reasonably confident that my great grandfather, Ed Arnold, painted the mural. He also painted the murals across the street at the Lensic (still in tact today) which was owned by the same person