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The Texas Theatre is a movie theater and Dallas landmark located in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas.It gained historical significance on November 22, 1963, as the location of Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest over the suspicion he was the killer of Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit and President John F. Kennedy.
After the movie, audience members were allowed to disassemble their seats and take them home as souvenirs of the theater. Of the first seven theaters, the downtown Austin theater was unique for being the host of many important film events in Austin, such as the Quentin Tarantino Film Festival and Harry Knowles's annual Butt-numb-a-thon.
BTM Cinemas (formerly known as Bow Tie Cinemas) is an American movie theater chain, with eight locations in Colorado, New York, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the oldest surviving movie exhibition company in the United States, having been founded in 1900. [ 3 ]
In 1975, a twin-screen movie theater owned and operated by General Cinema Corporation was added to the northeast corner of the mall. [23] The theater, formally known as Valley View Cinema 1 & 2, [32] closed in 1991. The facade of the movie theater was then boarded up and the interior furnishings were stripped out. [33]
The Granada Theater is a theatre located in Lower Greenville, in Dallas, TX. The theatre was built in 1946 as a movie house. In 1977, it was converted to a concert hall, only to revert to a movie theater soon after. In 2004 it was again opened as a concert hall.
The Majestic was the grandest of all the theaters along Dallas's Theatre Row which stretched for several blocks along Elm Street. The Melba, Tower, Palace, Rialto, Capitol, Telenews (newsreels and short-subjects exclusively), Fox (live burlesque), and Strand theatres were all demolished by the late 1970s; only the Majestic remains today.
Dallas Zoo: 106 acres. 2,000 animals. 406 species. 35 minutes from downtown Fort Worth. Largest and oldest zoo in Texas, circa 1888. Fort Worth Zoo: 64 acres. 540 species.
The Kessler initially served as a neighborhood movie house, providing entertainment to residents of Oak Cliff and surrounding areas. [3] Gene Autry, who owned several theaters in Oak Cliff, bought it in 1945. [3] A tornado hit the building in 1957, and a fire around 1960 put the theater out of commission. [3]