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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]
The complex consists of 210,000 square feet (20,000 m 2) of food and retail space which includes a movie theater and bowling alley. Alongside these facilities lies a 4,000-seat indoor music theatre, "The Pavilion at the Toyota Music Factory" with walls that can retract to create an open-air pavilion capable of seating an additional 4,000 people ...
The Granada Theater is a theater in the Lower Greenville neighborhood of Dallas. The theater 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 afterwards. In 2004 it was again opened as a concert hall.
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 .
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. [7]
Originally known as "Texas ShowPlace", the venue was meant to house concerts and theatrical performances for the Dallas–Fort Worth area. [3] The theatre opened in February 2002 as the "NextStage Performance Theater" [4] with a capacity of 6,350. [5] In May 2002, the theatre hired Dallas artist Cabe Booth to paint oil portraits of the visiting ...
Amid Hollywood's ongoing struggles, a coalition of local production businesses has formed to advocate for increased tax credits and other incentives to improve and support filming in California.
The Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas has been called, Texas' Most Historic Music Venue [1] and since its inception has had a colorful set of proprietors. Originally built by O.L. Nelms, an eccentric Dallas millionaire, for his close friend, western swing bandleader Bob Wills, the venue opened in 1950 as Bob Wills' Ranch House.