Ernie Pyle Theatre
2121 4th Street NW,
Albuquerque,
NM
87102
2121 4th Street NW,
Albuquerque,
NM
87102
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Motion Picture Herald, Oct. 11, 1952: “Albuquerque Exhibitors Inc. have bought the El Rey and La Sambea from Marlin Butler. Butler still retains the Ernie Pyle and Sunset drive-in.”
Motion Picture Herald, Aug. 20, 1955: “Paul Campbell, recently city manager for Knox Theatres, Durango, has bought the Ernie Pyle, Albuquerque, N. M., from Lester Dollison. Clarence Batter is the booker-buyer.”
Motion Picture Herald, March 3, 1956: “The Ernie Pyle, Albuquerque, N. M., leased recently by Paul Campbell, has been closed.”
Ernie Pyle’s house is a public library branch and historic site that includes books written by and about him that you can peruse while in rooms he had once inhabited:
https://abqlibrary.org/erniepyle
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60933-d6609215-Reviews-Ernie_Pyle_Library-Albuquerque_New_Mexico.html
https://www.yelp.com/biz/ernie-pyle-library-albuquerque
Enrnie Pyle (1900-1945) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was an American war correspondent at the time of death during World War II. He had moved to Albuquerque in 1940 and maintained a residence there until his death in April 1945, about a year and a half before this theater was named & opened in his honor.
October 9th, 1946 grand opening ad in photo section.
1945 photo added, photo credit Don J Akin.