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The Trojan Theatre at 513 Main St in Longmont was built in 1939. The building is currently the performing arts center for the Longmont Theatre Co., a volunteer-theater group created in 1957.
Originally known as the Fox Theater, the building was part of a movie theater enterprise begun by the Skouras brothers in St Louis, Missouri.
Chartes Spyros and George Skouras were born in Greece and immigrated to America in 1910. Working as bus boys, they saved money and started investing in nickelodeons, multipupose theaters that featured short motion pictures, illustrated songs, slide shows and lectures that could be seen for a nickel.
The brothers later worked with Warner Brothers and eventually headed the Fox Theatre empire which had theaters in communities across the United States.
The Fox Theater in Longmont was buut in the art-deco tradition popular in the 1930s and 1940s. These...