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From 1961 to 1982, Trail Dust Town was the site of one of Tucson's earliest community theater companies, Playbox Theatre. Playbox started several years earlier in a vacant church near the University of Arizona (later home to the Loft Theater, an early art film theater in Tucson) but it moved to Trail Dust Town in order to grow.
After several months of filming it was completed and on Nov. 15, 1940, the world premiere of the movie Arizona occurred in Tucson at four movie houses, Rialto Theatre, State Theatre, Fox Theatre and the Lyric Theatre. Nick C. Hall, still to today is considered the honorary mayor of Old Tucson.
A new Goldwater’s (August 14, 1978 [22]) store and a 6-screen movie theatre (operated by AMC Theatres as early as January 1988 [23]) were built along a connecting link with stores #12–20A, & #80–100, and the entire shopping center was enclosed. Joseph Kivel and the Papanikolas brothers developed the El Con Mall.
The Fox Tucson Theatre – was built in 1925 and is located at 1 W. Congress St. The "Fox Tucson Theatre", as it is also known, opened on April 11, 1930, as a dual vaudeville/movie house. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, ref.: #03000905.
Upon its opening in 1920, The Rialto Theatre was one of Tucson's first movie theaters, playing primarily silent films per the time period. In addition, the theater was host to Vaudeville shows, another popular form of entertainment at the time. The first full-length film to play on the Rialto's screen was 'The Toll Gate'.
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Old Tucson Studios is a studio just west of Tucson where several film and television westerns were filmed, including 3:10 to Yuma (1957), Cimarron (1960), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), and Rio Bravo (1959).
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