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As Houston and the rest of the country recovered from the Great Depression, art-deco style theaters of the late 1930s were built in many residential neighborhoods across the city. In addition to the River Oaks, neighborhood movie theaters like the Alabama , Tower, Capitan, and Ritz-Majestic Metro were several of the venues where Houstonians ...
River Oaks Theatre, Houston, 1939 Roy and Lillie Cullen Building, Baylor College of Medicine , Houston, 1948 Roy G. Cullen Building , University of Houston , Houston, 1938–39
The Niels and Mellie Esperson Buildings are a building complex in downtown Houston, Texas. Mary Ann Azevedo of the Houston Business Journal said that they were "among the most recognizable" buildings in Downtown. [7] The Niels Esperson Building is the only complete example of Italian Renaissance architecture in Downtown Houston. [2]
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Houston's population in 1930 was 292,352. Despite the stock market crash, Houston was still building. ... Work on the Texas Commerce Tower, ... the Wortham Theatre ...
A historic Houston theater that director Richard Linklater called his “film school” and that for decades was the place to catch hard-to-find independent and foreign films has closed for good ...
The Tower Theater was built in 1939 and became a landmark among the collection of shops and restaurants that popped up along Olive Avenue in a growing residential neighborhood that would become ...
This hotel deck was a popular dance venue during the 1930s. [15] Jones continued investing in the Rice Hotel through the 1930s. The Rice Barber Shop was remodeled in 1930, and a major remodeling of the bottom floors in 1938 coincided with a new, art-deco dining area, the Empire Room. [14]