Milestones Icon: Trojan Theatre

The Trojan Theatre at 513 Main St. in Longmont was built in 1939. The building is currently the performing arts center for the Longmont Theatre Co., a volunteer-theater group created in 1957.

Originally known as the Fox Theater, the building was part of a movie theater enterprise begun by the Skouras brothers in St. Louis, Missouri.

Charles Spyros and George Skouras were born in Greece and immigrated to America in 1910. Working as bus boys, they saved money and started investing in nickelodeons, multipupose theaters that featured short motion pictures, illustrated songs, slide shows and lectures that could be seen for a…