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Digital archive will save memories of the doomed Utah Theater, but preservationists would rather save the playhouse itself

First-class repository at U. library will include virtual reality tours, but advocates lament loss of the real thing.

(Salt Lake City, via Modern Out West) Watercolor of Main Street exterior. Before demolition, the once-majestic Utah Theater on Salt Lake City’s Main Street — a dilapidated and vacant 102-year-old performing arts hall once known as Pantages Theater — is being documented in a vast digital archive, hosted by J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah.