I have now completed a CD of the whole souvenir program of the formal opening of the theater in 1928. If anyone is interested please contact me @
T. Loftin
I will be happy to send you pictures out of the program. I too feel a deep sense of belonging to the Harlandale community having gone to Morrill Elementary, Harlandale Junior High and Harlandale High School. It’s like walking the old streets again in an age when you felt safe in this little area. I feel very fortunate to own this program as I too never knew how grand this theatre really was. You may email me at and give me your email and I will try to copy some of the program and email them back to you. I tried to put them on this site but did not succeed.
I own a souvenir program from the formal opening of the Victor’s Harlandale Theatre as it was called on February 2, 1928. It is a wonderful history of this theater and it boasted of a new Reuter organ, has a picture of the foyer (or lobby as we called it) and lists all the amenities such as indirect lighting, perfect view. smoke room, Gardiner Velvet Gold Fibre Screen, the latest in projection (Simplex) and spring time air the year ‘round. It lists all the board of directors, the builder was Mr. John T. Wilson, Jr., Gilbert Santacruz was the architect and Julio Vasquez was the decorator. It is approximately 40 pages and has numerous ads from local business including Thurman Barrett. Walter Napier was director and counselor of Victor Theatres, Inc. I spent many happy hours as a child in the 1950’s watching movies here and never knew how grand it was originally until I acquired this program.
I have now completed a CD of the whole souvenir program of the formal opening of the theater in 1928. If anyone is interested please contact me @
T. Loftin
I will be happy to send you pictures out of the program. I too feel a deep sense of belonging to the Harlandale community having gone to Morrill Elementary, Harlandale Junior High and Harlandale High School. It’s like walking the old streets again in an age when you felt safe in this little area. I feel very fortunate to own this program as I too never knew how grand this theatre really was. You may email me at and give me your email and I will try to copy some of the program and email them back to you. I tried to put them on this site but did not succeed.
I own a souvenir program from the formal opening of the Victor’s Harlandale Theatre as it was called on February 2, 1928. It is a wonderful history of this theater and it boasted of a new Reuter organ, has a picture of the foyer (or lobby as we called it) and lists all the amenities such as indirect lighting, perfect view. smoke room, Gardiner Velvet Gold Fibre Screen, the latest in projection (Simplex) and spring time air the year ‘round. It lists all the board of directors, the builder was Mr. John T. Wilson, Jr., Gilbert Santacruz was the architect and Julio Vasquez was the decorator. It is approximately 40 pages and has numerous ads from local business including Thurman Barrett. Walter Napier was director and counselor of Victor Theatres, Inc. I spent many happy hours as a child in the 1950’s watching movies here and never knew how grand it was originally until I acquired this program.