Bluebonnet Theater
1015 Broadway Street,
Houston,
TX
77012
1015 Broadway Street,
Houston,
TX
77012
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The Bluebonnet Theater opened around 1928. It was owned by Lemuel E. Newton. In 1936 the Bluebonnet Theater was acquired by the Interstate chain.
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The movie title shown on the marquee dates this photo of the Bluebonnet Theater to 1943:
http://www.moviepalaces.net/houston_bluebonnet.htm
Film Daily Yearbook, 1950 gives a seating capacity of 751. In the 1943 F.D.Y. (with 800 seats) it is shown as being operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through a subsidiary Joe Cooper.
Was unable to locate the Bluebonnet a couple of years ago when I was in the Houston area. It appears to have been demolished some years ago.
There are several views of the theater on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/3bnml5
Here is a photo circa 1930s:
http://tinyurl.com/md4z9c
That photo looks pretty good.
Closed in 1952. Too bad you didn’t have color film when you took the picture posted on 7/1/2009.
I remember this theater during the late 1940’s. They ran all the B westerns from Republic, Columbia, PRC, Monogram etc every Saturday as I recall. They were always double features. What a blast.