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Recently Added

Date Added Content
15 July 2016 Web site moved to a new server after the previous hosting company went out of business.  Links to the Guestbook and News Article sections now point to utahtheaters.info.  Some general clean-up.  The Photo and Advertisement sections will follow.  Eventually all villatheatre.com content may be merged into utahtheaters.info, to reduce expenses.
20 October 2012 Added three panoramas of Adibs Rug Gallery in the former Villa Theatre: stage, center, stadium.
15 September 2006 Updated the page for signing the guestbook and added a Terms of Use page.
14 September 2006 Updated the About and Contact pages.
13 February 2006 Added photos of the grand opening of Adib's Rug Gallery at the Villa Theatre.
9 January 2006 Added photos of Adibs Rug Gallery in the upper section of the auditorium.
1 December 2005 Added photos of the nearly completed remodeling to the entrance, exterior, and lower seating pages.
28 October 2005 Regenerated the panorama inside the Carmike ticket booth.  The new version of the panorama has less dark shadows inside the booth.
17 October 2005 Added photos of the auditorium remodeling.
17 October 2005 Added photos of the remodeling of the stadium seating section.
14 October 2005 Added photos of remodeling on the stage.
13 October 2005 Added photos of the lobby remodeling.
13 October 2005 Added photos of the entrance remodeling.
12 October 2005 Added photos of the remodeling outside the theater.
9 September 2005 Added photos in the stadium seating section, lower auditorium, and exterior.
9 September 2005 Added photos of the rebuilt ticket booth wall in the entrance.
7 September 2005 Added photos of the lobby remodel.
3 September 2005 Added photos of remodeling in the lobby.
14 June 2005 Added photos of the remodeling of the exterior.
10 May 2005 Added some photos and split the remodeling page into lobby, exterior, lower seating section, and stadium seating section.
9 May 2005 Added a couple photos of the remodeling of the stadium seating section.
22 April 2005 Added photos of the remodeling of the Villa Theatre's auditorium.
4 April 2005 Made improvements to the formatting on photo pages in the lobby area.
13 January 2004 Rewrote text on the Entrance Day photo page.
11 January 2004 Rewrote text on the pages Apple Yard Interior, Apple Yard Interior - South Corner, Apple Yard Interior - West Side, and moved the text of the Apple Yard Art Farewell Letter to a separate page.
7 January 2004 Rewrote the text on the Exterior Apple Yard page.
2 December 2004 The guestbook has been repeatedly "spammed" by people trying to create links to their unrelated web sites.  After manually deleting thousands of these entries over the past few months I have finally modified the guestbook submit page so that HTML code is not permitted.
5 October 2004 Added more photos of the current renovation, including some older photos for comparison.
30 September 2004 Added photos of the auditorium of the Villa Theatre, after removal of the Cinerama curtains and frame.
28 September 2004 Added photos of the missing ticket booth and the exterior of the building with the pink paint partially removed.
20 September 2004 Added a page on the current renovation of the Villa Theatre into a new showroom for Adib's Rug Gallery.
29 July 2004 In an effort to earn enough money to replace some recently failed equipment, I have started a new web site with instructions on how to create panorama images like those used on the villatheatre.com and utahtheaters.info web sites.  It will take a couple weeks to get the initial set of documents tidied up, but the web site is online now it you want to get an early look at it.
3/18/2004 Replaced a missing file and enhanced the panoramas of the Apple Yard Interior.
3/18/2004 Added a page with scans of old ticket stubs for Ice Station Zebra in 1969.
3/17/2004 Added a scan of a "Save the Villa" flyer passed out by the Utah Heritage Foundation at the rally before the theater closed.
3/17/2004 Added scans of the last ticket sold, ads from the closing day ad and the two days afterwards to the article on the closing of the theater.
3/4/2004 Added a much better copy of the Cinemiracle drawing which shows how the three projectors in a single booth project onto the curved screen using mirrors.
2/23/2004 Added two photos dated 21 February 2004.  The first is of the "for sale" banner on the theater's sign.  The second shows one of the back doors that has been welded shut because of vandals.