Trinidad, Colorado, won’t let go of this 115-year-old gem.
Nobody’s still around to remember the “glory days”—John Philip Sousa, Sitting Bull and traveling vaudeville acts appearing on stage—but there’s still plenty of folks in Trinidad, Colorado, who remember something just as glorious.
In 1908, the Fox West Theatre opened in Trinidad, Colorado. From 1929 to 2012 the grand 650-seat movie house entertained custom

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