{"id":49,"ordinal":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:33:18","content_modified":"2026-04-17 19:33:18","featured":0,"title":"Let’s Go to the Movies: Historic Theaters in the West","creator":"Melissa Valenzuela, Northern Arizona University","description":"<p>As films and movie theaters became increasingly popular modes of entertainment in the twentieth-century United States, the Intermountain West followed suit as families, migrants, and entrepreneurs established, renovated, and managed movie theaters to meet the growing demands. Movie theaters were more than just places for films and entertainment, though. As community spaces, theaters have been sites of desegregation and civil rights, community building in frontier towns, and technological innovation.\r\n\r\nRanging across Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada, this tour explores five historic movie theaters in the Intermountain West. </p>","postscript_text":"","tour_img":"https://www.intermountainhistories.org/files/fullsize/faf1a3d4f220e9826b159120efba04fc.jpg","items":[{"id":550,"title":"Fremont Theatre","latitude":36.16921339999999673864294891245663166046142578125,"longitude":-115.1406199999999984129317454062402248382568359375,"thumbnail":"https://www.intermountainhistories.org/files/square_thumbnails/faf1a3d4f220e9826b159120efba04fc.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.intermountainhistories.org/files/fullsize/faf1a3d4f220e9826b159120efba04fc.jpg","subtitle":null,"address":"226 Fremont Street, Las Vegas, NV 89101","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":551,"title":"Blue Fox Theatre","latitude":45.92576785540347117375858942978084087371826171875,"longitude":-116.1202877077765833746525458991527557373046875,"thumbnail":"https://www.intermountainhistories.org/files/square_thumbnails/1336d57c9ac40d49096042cbd93aad9d.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.intermountainhistories.org/files/fullsize/1336d57c9ac40d49096042cbd93aad9d.jpg","subtitle":null,"address":"116 W. Main St, Grangeville, ID 83530","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":552,"title":"Spud Drive-in","latitude":43.689587950000003502282197587192058563232421875,"longitude":-111.109299473979262984357774257659912109375,"thumbnail":"https://www.intermountainhistories.org/files/square_thumbnails/8cfcc674d758aa9c4a1daea9044fcd1c.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.intermountainhistories.org/files/fullsize/8cfcc674d758aa9c4a1daea9044fcd1c.jpg","subtitle":null,"address":"2175 ID-33, Driggs, ID 83422","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":553,"title":"Park Theatre","latitude":40.37549549999999953797669149935245513916015625,"longitude":-105.5234616999999985864633345045149326324462890625,"thumbnail":"https://www.intermountainhistories.org/files/square_thumbnails/a883487d6ca541a3aee3ba0591772da9.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.intermountainhistories.org/files/fullsize/a883487d6ca541a3aee3ba0591772da9.jpg","subtitle":null,"address":"130 Moraine Ave, Estes Park, CO 80517","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":554,"title":"Redwood Drive-in","latitude":40.69058008572352491682977415621280670166015625,"longitude":-111.9423116465322891599498689174652099609375,"thumbnail":"https://www.intermountainhistories.org/files/square_thumbnails/789c1a0b2330e93722b7fa1a31a9a551.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.intermountainhistories.org/files/fullsize/789c1a0b2330e93722b7fa1a31a9a551.jpg","subtitle":null,"address":"3688 S Redwood Rd, West Valley City, UT 84119","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}}]}