Garden Oaks Theater
3750 N. Shepherd Drive,
Houston,
TX
77018
3750 N. Shepherd Drive,
Houston,
TX
77018
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Like the Santa Rosa Theatre, the Garden Oaks Theatre was built in the late-1940’s by Interstate Circuit Inc. and was a sub-run 28 day house off downtown Houston. The theater was in an “L” shape design. A second screen was later added it was had been a retail space in the theater building. It operated at least through the mid-1990’s and is a church today.
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Another photo can be seen here. Current name: The Net Church.
Here is a 2009 photo. This is now the Grace Church.
1983 Photo
1984 Photo
1984 Night Photo
1984 Interior Photo
A look back at the Garden Oaks Theater in Houston from 1998.
The Garden Oaks was one of several post-war Houston theaters designed for the Interstate Circuit by H.F. Pettigrew and John A. Worley of the Dallas firm of Pettigrew & Worley.
Here are two more interior photos from 1984:
Photo1
Photo2
The Garden Oaks opened on July 10, 1947. The premier feature was “The Sea of Grass” with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.
Nice nighttime shots,nice looking shopping center theatre.
I saw Saturday Night Fever here in early 1978. I was 8 yrs old. I remember while driving away from the theater late that night, on Shepherd going toward 610, seeing what looked like an old woman laying in the street at the curb. I don’t think anyone else in the car saw this but me.. I never forgot it.
I have some nice photos of the Garden Oaks theater but I don’t know how to post them here. I got them off an old website twenty years ago. I have no idea who owns them but they are really nice including some interiors. Ray Frazier