“Me recuerdo cuando era un teatro.” “ I remember when it was a theater.” The Rialto theater was built in 1917 and opened on May 28, by J.M Quinn. The first presentation was “The Garden of Allah”. It continued to show films for decades and sadly the theater was closed on October 1988. Like many beautiful theaters in the area,  It’s lobby became home to small retail shops while the main auditorium sat empty and its large marquee remained blank. In late 2013 the building reopened with an Urban Outfitters