FOR THE RECORD
just in case anybody really does want to do a history,
and if anybody ever does, you’d be able to knock me over
with a feather

A Few Cinemas in Albuquerque and Elsewhere

or, My Screaming Tirade

If you read my essay on Monty Python, you noticed that I griped about the unforgiveable cropping at all cinemas in Albuquerque. Ah, so now I’m thinking about Albuquerque. So now that I’m thinking about Albuquerque, why not tell some stories? On the off-chance that you are a historian who wishes to write about cinemas in Albuquerque, here’s some info you don’t even have to pay for. (But if you’re going to plunder any of this, at least have the courtesy to give me a footnote. Please?)

JUMP AHEAD:

1.  The Lobo
2.  The Format Wars
3.  Albuquerque Exhibitors, Inc.
4.  The Lobo Fine Arts Cinema
5.  The Sunshine
6.  The Age of Widescreen
7.  Don Pancho’s Arts Theater
8.  Don Pancho’s Art Theatre
9.  The Roxy Art Theatre
10.  The Guild Art Theatre
11.  Eddie Horton and the First Methodist Church
12.  Movie, Inc., Leases The Guild
13.  Madowhy’s Brief Interruption
14.  The Guild Gobbles Don Pancho’s
15.  I Irritate Everybody
16.  The Screening Room Twin
17.  The King of Hearts
18.  The Best One Is Canned
19.  Closing The Guild
20.  My Very First Job
21.  The Rocky Horror Picture Show
22.  Vandalizing the Films
23.  The Ruling Class
24.  Fired from My Very First Job
25.  Mrs. A
26.  My Horrid Reputation
27.  Dear Inspector
28.  My Own Idiocy
29.  The Sheridan Opera House

30.  Let Bygones Be Bygones
31.  More Jobs
32.  The Sunset Drive-In
33.  Robots
34.  USPS/APWU + the Sunset Drive-In
35.  Santa Fé: The City Lights and El Paseo
36.  The Defamatory Cinema
37.  The Cinefest
38.  Super Saver
39.  Smear Campaign
40.  Aftershocks
41.  The Frauenthal
42.  Hoyt Hall
43.  Failure
44.  My Very Last Projection Job
45.  9/11
46.  Escape
47.  Afterthoughts
48.  Landmark Cinemas
49.  Caligula
50.  The Morals of the Story
51.  Albuquerque’s Forgotten Cinemas
52.  Albuquerque’s Forgotten Stage Theatres
53.  The Demise of Cinema
54.  The Fox Winrock and Lawrence of Arabia
55.  Movies at the Mission and at UNM
56.  Pastime, Crystal, B
57.  The Darkness That Grew Like a Cancer
58.  The Unexpected Revelation

This web page has grown so huge that it no longer loads properly. So I divided it into dozens of smaller pages, each chapter its own web page. Click on the links above.