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Name:
Marianna Plummer
Date:
7/31/2008

From:
NY
IP Address:
140.163.254.158

Comments:

I can't THANK YOU enough for creating this site which enabled me to walk down memory lane when I dearly needed to ... I lived very near the Villa Theatre from 1959-1978 and have so many fond memories of going there as a child up through my teens (and perhaps beyond - can't recall now!!) but I do always remember driving by there on Highland Drive. I just thought it would always be there. To learn that it has not only fallen subject to the mini-plex mania but to the ultimate blow of theatre death really brought a tear to my eye. I am grateful to the new owner for leaving the sign in tact, which is wonderful, but I don't think I could ever venture inside. I'd like to remember it as it was ... I remember walking atop the flagstone planter and then jumping off - oh what a feat that was when you are 8 years old!! I also read on another post that downtown the Centre Theatre has actualy been TORN DOWN!! OMG. What are they thinking?? One day they will wish they had truly preserved some of these treasures of decades gone by in Salt Lake City. Our world is moving all too fast today and if we don't stop to remember and sometimes be able to see and to appreciate how were, we're in a lot of trouble and sadly will miss out on a lot. Life is short and the art is long ... Thank you again for sharing your wonderful site. You have satiated a homesickness hunger for me in ways you cannot imagine.

Name:
Gregory G. Stangal
Date:
4/13/2008

From:
Phoenix, Arizona
IP Address:
12.72.92.17

Comments:

Here in Phoenix, Az. we lost the great Cine' Capri Theate, which was a lot like the Villa. I hope this wonderful theatre can return to all its glory.

Name:
Brian Gross
Date:
7/11/2007

From:
Brian
IP Address:
70.230.158.71

Comments:

I saw this theater and it was beautiful, the way a theater should be then I saw what it has become today and it brought a tear to my eye I hate when people say they wish to preserve something and they don't I will just say this if the Villa was preserved there would be a screen on that wall not a rug.

Name:
Freda Smith
Date:
7/4/2007

From:
F. Smith
IP Address:
24.10.239.177

Comments:

I loved the Villa my entire life. I have many many many FOND memories of going there. I went there recently to buy rugs and I literally cried as I walked into the main theatre area. It was like a death in the family. I am glad it is still standing and it has been renovated and redecorated very well. It is worth going there just to see the change, but take your Kleenex box because it was really really sad!

Name:
Abbey Becton
Date:
6/22/2007

From:
Salt Lake City
IP Address:
166.70.17.47

Comments:

This is another theater in Salt Lake that I'd buy if money were no object. A rug gallery? Oh the horrors! It was bad enough when the Centre theater was torn down, but to have the Villa with it's balcony made into a carpet store? At least the building is still intact and I'm sure the owner's thoughts/heart is in the right place. Thanks for this site, many memories. One of the first movies I went to with my ex-husband was at the Villa--Pink Floyd the Wall!! Yikes! How eighties!

Name:
Laury Smith
Date:
3/19/2007

From:
Laury Smith
IP Address:
24.10.151.225

Comments:

I have always loved the Villa theater. I happened upon this site today while I was sitting at home thinking about my darling aunt Connie that worked there for what seems to me a life time taking tickets. I remember being a little girl and every time we would drive by the theater I would see my beautiful aunt in the ticket booth with her lovely smile on her face greeting each customer. She is in the hospital today, seriously ill, and it was a blessing to me to be able to come to this site and remember her warm smile and a time when her health was not a burden to her. Thank you for sharing.

Name:
Ticktock
Date:
1/23/2007

From:

IP Address:
72.0.177.127

Comments:

This is among the very best, most exhaustive theater sites I've seen. Thanks SO much, particularly to Grant Smith for the photos. There's something ineffably romantic about hidden, disused and abandoned movie theater stage equipment: the draperies, motors and cables, rigging, even the old screens. I just love all the backstage shots on this site. A question: Did the Villa originally have a title curtain? That appears to be the case in the pre-opening shot (the mayor onstage), in which the main curtain is apparently raised, but a curtain is in place behind the mayor. Does anyone know? Again, thanks so much for this very romantic (best word I can find) site. Tick.

Name:
Jeremy
Date:
11/13/2006

From:
Salt Lake City
IP Address:
67.166.102.142

Comments:

I grew up in the house next to Crowne Burger. Villa was always the place for our family to check out movies. I really appreciate all the images you have provided. They've also proven to be very helpful with an assignment in my photoshop class. We've been given the task of recreating a picture of a neon sign. One of the greatest right here!

Name:
Jerry Meik
Date:
8/13/2006

From:
Plymouth Michigan
IP Address:
69.14.66.138

Comments:

I have many fond memories of the Villa Theater. First job ever was that of an usher at The Villa working my way up to head usher and doorman. It was exciting being a doorman at the premiers of South Pacific and Windjammer. The theater managers during that period were Mr. Frisby. Mr. Kirkmeyer and Dick Krebs was the assistant mgr. All of which were in some of the photos on this site. Every time im in Salt Lake I drive by to see the theater. I was very sorry to see it close.

Name:
Simon Overton
Date:
8/6/2006

From:
Santa Ana, California
IP Address:
70.34.23.62

Comments:

My wife, Kathleen, and I spent numerous hours at the Villa. This was a magnificent movie palace with a lot of history. The reason it's selling carpets now instead of movie seats, can be blamed, for NO other reason, than on the movie-going public. They were too lazy to go that one extra mile. Instead, they had to go to another multiplex to see the same film. Multiplexes are killing the single screen movie houses, like Starbucks are "the place to be seen" rather than a (dying) mom & pop coffee shop. I hope they all fail from over breeding! As for me... you won't see [me] in a multiplex!!!

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