Alameda Theatre

Joe Vogel on April 11, 2022 at 9:28 am

The Alameda first appears in the FDY in 1937 with 450 seats. !936 was the last year a 350-seat house called the Majestic, located on S. Pearl St., was listed. The Majestic was listed at Pearl and Alameda street in the 1929 FDY, with 466 seats. It’s possible that the Alameda was the old Majestic, remodeled and renamed, though it might have been a new theater built to replace the Majestic, or a new theater that put the Majestic out of business.

The FDY screwed up the listings in 1927 and 1928, with the entire state of Colorado left out of the 1927 edition and large numbers of Denver’s theaters left unlisted in 1928, but the 1926 FDY lists a house called the Mena Theatre at Pearl and Alameda. There’s a possibility that the Mena was an earlier name for the Majestic, and thus possibly of the Alameda as well. Someone would have to come up with addresses for the Mena and the Majestic to be sure, or course.