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Denver's first purpose-built movie house became its favourite small stage. The Bluebird Theater at 3317 East Colfax Avenue opened on 11 September 1915 as the Thompson Theater, designed by Harry W. J. Edbrooke for grocer-druggist John Thompson as the city's first theater built specifically for motion pictures - a Renaissance Revival neighbourhood house with a terraced floor, a balcony and an ornate proscenium of dancing cherubs. Pharmacist Harry Huffman bought it in 1921 and gave it the Bluebird ...