Features

•Main Page
•Location
•The Sign
•Marquee & Entrance
•Ticket Booth
•Poster Cases
•The Cinerama Screen
 

Related Links

•Map to theater
•Aerial view of Villa

Location

The Villa Theatre is located at 3092 South Highland Drive, in an area recently annexed into Salt Lake City.  The theater is just northeast of the Brickyard Plaza shopping center, 1.5 miles south of downtown Sugarhouse, and 3 miles north of the Cottonwood Mall.

The Villa was built on the east end of a 2.5 acre lot which stretches from Highland Drive to 1300 East.  The parking lot was "adequately lighted with sodium vapor lamps"* and provided free parking for 500 cars.  A section of the lot on the south was later sold and an office building and two-level parking garage were build on the site.

Although Highland Drive is now lined with commercial businesses, when the theater was built in 1949 it was a suburban-residential area, "which has seen some of the most rapid growth in home-building in the city's recent history.  [The Villa] is located to serve residents of a large section of Salt Lake and Sugar House and show-goers from other areas who might be dining at the various restaurants and cafes in the region."*