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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Forty homeless people were living inside when the foundation bought the building for 250,000 dollars - a quarter-century of abandonment had nearly finished what the multiplex era started. The Fox Tucson Theatre at 17 West Congress Street opened on 11 April 1930 as a dual vaudeville and movie house, and it is the only known example of a Southwestern Art Deco - "Pueblo Deco" - movie palace anywhere. Architect M. Eugene Durfee dressed the 1,300-seat house in zig-zag deco fused with Pueblo motifs -...