About villatheatre.com
villatheatre.com is dedicated to preserving
the history of the Villa Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah. The
site was founded by Grant Smith in 2001 as a way
to practice skills learned in a web design course. For the next
two years villatheatre.com tried to promote the Villa Theatre in hopes
that the theater would not close. The web site continues
now as a monument to all the great movie theaters we have lost over
the years.
Funding
For the first few years the web hosting expenses of the
villatheatre.com and utahtheaters.info web sites were a financial burden,
but the sites are now close to being self-sufficient. Advertising
on the sites pay for most of the expenses of web hosting, equipment,
and travel. All work is still done by unpaid volunteers, which
is not likely to change near future.
Showtimes
The Villa Theatre is no longer an operating movie theater. After
showing movies for 53 years, the Villa closed on 18 February
2003 after Carmike Cinemas sold
the theater to Harmons Grocery. The
property was later sold to to Dr. Hamid Adib, who has
converted the former theater into a beautiful rug gallery named Adibs
Rug Gallery.
Contributing
Much of the information on villatheatre.com comes from
old newspaper articles, which have often covered major events in the
history of the Villa Theatre. If
you have information or photos or Photos of the Villa that do not appear
on this site, please contact
us. If
you would like to share your memories of the Villa Theatre or express
support for its recent remodeling,
please
visit
the
guestbook.