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At the top of the stairs to the lower lobby, on the north side.
Villa Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah
Photo by Grant Smith, 23 August 2002

The north end of the lower lobby and the door to the powder room, from the upper lobby.
Villa Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah
Photo by Grant Smith

A display for Sleeping Beauty in 1959, at the north end of the lobby.  Behind it is the stairway down to the lower lobby.
Villa Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah
Photo courtesy of Paul Schultz

The north end of the lower lobby from the top of the stairs. The south end of the lobby was walled off to form a supply room for the concession stand.
Villa Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah
Photo by Grant Smith, 15 October 2002

The three sets of double doors that make up the front entrance.  The original glass doors were replaced in 1998 after an accident on Highland Drive sent a motorcycle crashing into the theater lobby.*
Villa Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah
Photo by Grant Smith, 15 October 2002

To keep to the exiting audience from one showing separate from the waiting audience for the next showing, a rope was set up from the north hall to the front doors.  The metal circles in the floor cover the holes in which the rope poles were placed.
Villa Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah
Photo by Grant Smith, 15 October 2002

The ticket stand with the French doors on the north hall in the background.
Villa Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah
Photo by Grant Smith

The door on the left was originally a manager's office, but during the 1996 remodel it became a handicapped restroom. The door on the right leads to the ticket booth.  The entrance doors are on the right, just out of the photo.
Villa Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah
Photo by Grant Smith, 15 October 2002

Crowds leaving the preview of MGM's "Battlefield," 20 December 1949.
Villa Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah
Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved.