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The Pines Theater is a historic movie theater located in Lufkin, Texas. Built in 1925, it was designed by architect Shirley Simons and/or W. P. Berry in Moderne style. [1] [2] [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1] The City of Lufkin purchased the theater in 2007.
Lufkin is home to Lufkin Industries and Lufkin Gears LLC, which manufactures and services oil field equipment and power transmission equipment, and supplies of creosote-treated utility poles. It is also home to the Atkinson Candy Company , the creator of the Chick-O-Stick , and Brookshire Brothers , a chain of grocery stores in Texas and Louisiana.
The Lufkin Daily News was the first daily newspaper in Lufkin, founded in 1906 [2] by Charles L. Schless, who came to the city from Chicago to begin the afternoon publication. In 1909, he organized local stockholders to form a company and bought the Lufkin Tribune, a weekly in operation since 1887. Schless left Lufkin in 1912, and the company ...
The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 1976 American thriller horror film [5] [6] directed and produced by Charles B. Pierce, and written by Earl E. Smith.The film is loosely based on the 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders, crimes attributed to an unidentified serial killer known as the Phantom Killer.
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Rodolfo Morales (May 8, 1925 – January 30, 2001) was a Mexican painter, who incorporated elements of magic realism into his work. [ 1 ] Morales is best known for his brightly colored surrealistic dream-like canvases and collages often featuring Mexican women in village settings.
Lufkin Independent School District is a public school district based in Lufkin, Texas . In addition to the city of Lufkin, Lufkin ISD serves a small portion of Burke . In 2009, the school district was rated " academically acceptable " by the Texas Education Agency .
On November 16, 2010, eighteen-year-old Joshua Wilkerson was murdered by his classmate Hermilo Moralez, who was an illegal immigrant to the United States from Belize. [1] [2] Both boys were students at an alternative school for at-risk students in Pearland, Texas (a suburb of Houston). [2]