Victory Theater
48 East 300 South,
Salt Lake City,
UT
84111
48 East 300 South,
Salt Lake City,
UT
84111
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Previously operated by: Pantages, Paramount Pictures Inc.
Architects: H.A. Hodgson, Edwin Walker Houghton
Previous Names: Colonial Theater, Pantages Theater
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The Victory Theater, located in downtown Salt Lake City, was originally known as the Colonial Theater when it opened in 1908. It was also briefly known as the Pantages Theater. It was possibly the only movie theater in Salt Lake with two balconies. It was last operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary Tracy Barham.
Sadly, however, the Victory Theatre suffered a devastating fire which killed 3 firemen in May 1943, and the remains were demolished in July 1943.
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There is a small photo of the Victory on this site:
http://www.yesco.com/history.html
Here is the account of the fire from the Deseret News on 5/19/43:
http://tinyurl.com/6d8pna
This opened on November 18th, 1908. small grand opening ad is at View link
From its date of opening, its location, and the description of an unnamed theater that was the subject of an article in the Salt Lake Herald of July 16, 1908, the architect of the Victory Theatre can be identified as E.W. Houghton of Seattle, with H.A. Hodgson as his associate in charge of construction. This was the same team that designed and built the Ogden Theatre at Ogeden, Utah, the following year.
The Salt Lake Herald article can be read online here, in the Library of Congress’s newspaper collection.
A close-up view of the entrance to the Victory Theatre in Salt Lake City appears at the top of this page of the March 6, 1926, issue of Motion Picture News.
Better quality grand opening ad posted.
May 20th, 1943
Victory Theater fire, May 1943 20 May 1943, Thu The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah) Newspapers.com
Reopened as Victory on December 22nd, 1923. 1923 and 1943 (never opened) grand opening ads posted.