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After years of decline and neglect the theater was restored in the 1990s, reopening in 1997 as a community theater. It was then renovated again in 2009 to accommodate for new groundbreaking 3D technology.
It came under new, nonprofit ownership in 2022.
Delta, Colorado
Delta is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Delta County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 9,035 at the 2020 United States census. The United States Forest Service headqua ...
, United States, is an Egyptian Revival
Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's French campaign in Egypt and Syria, invasion of ...
movie house. The 425-seat theater opened in 1928 at the height of the fashion for thematically-designed cinemas. It was designed by Montana Fallis, who also designed the Mayan Theatre in Denver
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.
The Egyptian is notable as one of the first locations for a promotion devised by 20th Century Fox
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regional manager, Charles Yeager, during the 1930s when business was poor in the small Colorado
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theaters he managed. " Bank Night" awarded $30 to a random patron once a week. The promotion improved attendance and kept theaters in business. Yeager's pilot program in Colorado was expanded so that by 1936 the promotion was in use at 4000 cinemas in the United States.
After years of decline and neglect the theater was restored in the 1990s, reopening in 1997 as a community theater. It was then renovated again in 2009 to accommodate for new groundbreaking 3D technology.
It came under new, nonprofit ownership in 2022.
In film
In September 2023 the film ''Cinemortal'' (2024) was shot at the Delta Egyptian Theater.See also
*Egyptian Theatre
Egyptian-style theatres are based on the traditional and historic design elements of Ancient Egypt.
The first Egyptian Theatre to be constructed in the US – which inspired many of the identically-named theatres that followed it – was Graum ...
for other Egyptian Theatres and a discussion of the style
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*References
Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado Buildings and structures in Delta County, Colorado Theatres completed in 1928 Cinemas and movie theaters in Colorado Egyptian-style theaters Egyptian Revival architecture in the United States 1928 establishments in Colorado National Register of Historic Places in Delta County, Colorado {{Colorado-NRHP-stub