Fascination with the 1920s excavation of King Tutankhamen's tomb inspired an architectural idiom that reached even smalltown America. Fallis, the Denver architect who designed Denver's Mayan Theater, gave Delta one of Colorado's few surviving examples of Egyptomania. This theater's one-story Egyptian Deco facade is mostly intact, as are the two-story stage box in back of the
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