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The Texas Theatre opened on April 21, 1931. The Texas Theatre was the largest suburban movie theater in Dallas and was part of a chain of theaters financed by Howard Hughes. It was the first theater in Dallas with air conditioning and featured many state-of-the-art luxuries. The theater is most famous for being the site of Lee Harvey Oswald's ...
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]
The Hall of State (originally the State of Texas Building) is a building in Dallas's Fair Park that commemorates the history of the U.S. state of Texas and is considered one of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the state. It was designed and built for the Texas Centennial Exposition.
Some movie theaters such as the Living Room Theaters or Alamo Drafthouse offer full restaurant service at one's seat, though this is not as widespread. McMenamins is a chain of restaurant/brewpub establishments in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington, many of which have full movie theaters. By the mid 1940s in some smaller theaters popcorn ...
The Kalita Humphreys Theater is a historic theater in Dallas, Texas . It is the only theater by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and one of the last completed buildings he designed. [ 3 ] It was built in 1959 for Dallas Theater Center who still produces original productions on the revolving stage.
NorthPark was the home of Texas' first H&M, a fashion label from Sweden. H&M has since closed its NorthPark Center store, and opened other locations in Texas. [12] The American Film Institute's Dallas International Film Festival was sponsored by NorthPark Center in 2009. The event was held in the AMC NorthPark 15 Theater, which also hosted ...
Palace Theater, Childress Commercial and Civic Historic District, Childress, 1937; Palace Theatre (former Marfa Opera House), Marfa; Palace Theater, Seguin, 1938; Paris Community Theatre (former Palace Theatre), Paris, 1926; Pearland School (now Alvin Community College – Pearland Campus), Pearland, 1945; People's National Bank Building, Tyler ...
In 1995, AMC Theatres opened the first North American megaplex, the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas, Texas, a theater complex that could accommodate thousands. [24] AMC continued to open other megaplex theaters, such as the AMC Hampton Towne Center 24 in Hampton, Virginia, and the chain's busiest theater in the US, the AMC Empire 25 in New York City ...