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The original ticket booth, 9 December 1949.

The original ticket booth, 9 December 1949.
Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved.

The expanded ticket booth, 2 October 2001.

The expanded ticket booth, 2 October 2001.
Photo by Grant Smith.

Ticket Booth

The theater's original ticket booth was to the right side of the entrance doors, with a poster case on either side.  It had three large panes of glass, with the ticket window in the middle pane, and was capped with a flat stainless steel roof.  The bottom half of the ticket booth was also made of stainless steel.

By July 1961, a second ticket window was added to help serve the large crowds of show-goers.
Photo courtesy of Paul Shultz.

During a remodel of the theater in 1996, Carmike Cinemas replaced the old ticket booth with a larger one that extended underneath the marquee and had two ticket windows.  The new ticket booth covered the poster case next to the entrance and three of the spot globe lights in the ceiling.  All of the native flagstone along this wall was covered over, except for a section below the remaining poster case.