The Lobo Theater is the oldest standing movie theater

Movie theater

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 located along historic Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...

 in the United States of America. It was built in 1939, and closed its doors as a movie theater in 2001.

It then became City on a Hill church, and transitioned to a campus of Mars Hill Church

Mars Hill Church

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 in Seattle in the Fall of 2009.

It was the primary setting for the 2002

2002 in film

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 independent film

Independent film

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 Collecting Rooftops, which started being filmed while the theater was under Bobby McMullen's operation and finished its filming, in the theater, by the generosity of Amon Re (musician).