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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

Chandeliers shaped like war drums, air vents disguised as Navajo rugs, garlanded buffalo skulls with glowing amber eyes - and a resident ghost appeased with doughnuts. The KiMo Theatre, at 423 Central Avenue NW on old Route 66 in downtown Albuquerque, opened on 19 September 1927 as the first theatre ever built in the Pueblo Deco style. Italian immigrant Oreste Bachechi - who arrived in 1885 and built a fortune from a tent by the railroad tracks - commissioned the Boller Brothers to fuse Art Dec...