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Looking Back Scottsdale: Steven Spielberg’s Childhood Theater Gridiron
Scottsdale received its first movie theater when future Scottsdale mayor Malcolm White and Arizona cinema entrepreneur Harry Nace opened the T Bar T on Main Street between Brown Avenue and Scottsdale Road. In the 1950s, it was sold and renamed the Kiva. On Saturdays, the Kiva showed 50-cent matinees featuring monster, scifi and B Westerns, with more substantial films mixed in such as John Ford’s “The Searchers.” This was the childhood theater of Steven Spielberg who, in a biography by Steven McBride, fondly remembers being dropped off by his parents to watch the movie magic at the Kiva. Another local landmark in the director’s career was the shooting of his first film, called the “Last Gunfight,” at the Pinnacle Peak Patio in 1958. It was filmed on his father’s 8-mm camera.
Workers manage machines in the T Bar T’s projection room. Joan Fudala writes in the book “Scottsdale” that the T Bar T was “state-of-the-art for its day,” and featured “a smoke bar and a crying room for babies.” Steven Spielberg watched serials like “Tailspin Tommy,” “Commando Cody” and the “Masked Marvel” at the Kiva in the 1950s, which began as the T Bar T.
Scottsdale’s first movie theater, the T Bar T, was built in 1948 in a Western-revival style.
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The T Bar T building today houses shops, but architectural features from the theater days, like the ticket booth and signboard, remain.
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