Colorado Theatre

Today's six-screen multiplex, the Regency Academy Cinemas, hides a historic picture palace. It opened in 1925 as the 1,709-seat Bard’s Egyptian Theatre, with Egyptian Revival design by L.A. Smith. It later became Bard’s Colorado, then the Fox Colorado. In 1942, Fox West Coast gave it a Streamline Moderne remodel, renaming it the Academy Theatre. The Academy frequently held studios' test screenings (including for The Music Man); the films’ stars often attended. It got multiplexed in 1986.