Post by vegalyra on May 23, 2019 15:25:41 GMT
One of the theaters that we frequented when I was a kid was already about 15 years old by the time I really remember going there. The Northshore theater off of I-10 and Uvalde in Houston. It had already been converted into two screens by then as well, it was originally a 1 screen theater that sat about 800 or so people. There was an identical theater (Parkview) built across the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, TX that we went to once or twice as well. It was built the same year, 1966 and had the same architecture. Both are still there, but one is now a FedEx Office store and the other is vacant after a fabric store that was located inside shut down. The lobbies were very generously sized and by the early '80s had a long row of arcade games against the far wall with concessions on the other side. I saw quite a few movies at the Northshore theater, including Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the first two Back to the Future films among others. Here is an ad for the Parkview theater when it first opened.
My cousin lives "out in the sticks" near Livingston, Texas. The Fain Theater operated in town up until 2015 (I believe the present building was built in 1948 although there had been a theater there operated by the same family in the silent era). I saw a few movies there when I would stay at his house mostly during the summers. It was still a single screen theater and sat quite a few folks for a fairly small town.
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My cousin lives "out in the sticks" near Livingston, Texas. The Fain Theater operated in town up until 2015 (I believe the present building was built in 1948 although there had been a theater there operated by the same family in the silent era). I saw a few movies there when I would stay at his house mostly during the summers. It was still a single screen theater and sat quite a few folks for a fairly small town.
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