Wings Theater

Autographed photo to Roy starling and his wife from Ken Maynard. Maynard enjoyed a long and prosperous career with Monogram/Allied Artists that began with silent films. He died in 1974.
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Group photo of unidentified men holding a "Greater Monogram Pictures" banner. The man in the front row holding the right corner of the banner may possilby have been Roy Starling.
With thanks to Jeannette Davison for permission to post these photos.
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At the time of his death Roy Starling owned the WHITE THEATER in Fort Worth, which later became the BERRY. He had sold the WINGS and TEXAN theaters in Grand Prairie to buy the White.

www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/346384522 WHITE

www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/196614951 BERRY

I would greatly appreciate any information on this theater or the TEXAN in Grand Prairie.

Please post here or email to grapevine1usa@msn.com

See my comment on the Texan Theatre at
http://cinematreasures.org/theater/18144/
I describe a theatre across the street from it which might have been the Wings.

This article about the Uptown Theater also mentions the Wings Theater. The location given is Main Street, but it doesn't specify East or West Main.

"In 1948, two brothers, Jerry and Sherman Silver, and their sister, Helen Meagher Fisher, a young widow with three children, bought the Wings Theatre on Main Street in Grand Prairie and moved to Texas from Minnesota. The brothers, who were already in the Theatre business, were excited about the possibilities in this small but growing Texas town of 13,241. Soon after arrival, the family also leased and ran the Texas Theatre, located a block down and across the street from the Wings. The Wings Theatre, which featured second-run movies, was thought to have been a converted grocery store, with a rickety wooden floor and a segregated balcony for its African American customers. The Texas Theatre, originally built as a movie house, also featured second-run movies".