American Theatre
125 N. 2nd Street,
Sterling,
CO
80751
125 N. 2nd Street,
Sterling,
CO
80751
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Fox Inter-Mountain Theaters Inc.
Styles: Spanish Colonial
Previous Names: America Theater
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The American Theatre was opened by the early-1920’s. The 1951 Film Daily Year Book listed the America Theater at “125 N. Main Street” with 508 seats.
On June 20, 1953, Motion Picture Herald wrote, “Fox Inter-Mountain Theatres has sold the American, Sterling, Colo., and the Coronado Theatre, Las Vegas, N. M., to the M & M Theatres Inc.”
An article in the February 14, 2012 Daily Breeze of El Segundo CA, quoted by CT commenter Joe Vogel, said that around the 1950’s, his family would go to the movies in Sterling. “It was 9 cents at the American Theatre and about 12 at the ritzier Fox Theatre”.
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Michael Kilgore
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Recent comments (view all 4 comments)
Other photos of the America Theatre show a Mission or Spanish Colonial Revival style parapet reminiscent of the Alamo at San Antonio. Movie posters dating from the mid-1920s are on display in these photos. The building certainly dates from that period at the latest, and possibly from the later 1910s.
Needs to be listed as demolished. The purported address makes no sense. Main runs E-W, so there has never been a N Main. I suggest 125 N 2nd St, which on the 1918 map is an empty space between a two-story brick building, and a two-story concrete block dealership. That matches up pretty well with what’s shown in one photo. That whole corner is now a parking lot.
Back in 1924, the March 1 issue of Moving Picture World mentioned a house in Sterling called the U.S.A. Theatre. I wonder if that might have been an aka for this house?
Maybe? We definitely need to add America, with no ‘N’, as an aka.