White Theatre
1628 Forest Avenue,
Dallas,
TX
75215
1628 Forest Avenue,
Dallas,
TX
75215
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The White Theatre was operated by the Interstate Theatre Corporation.
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Jack Coursey
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Address is wrong for this theater. The White was not on Forest LANE in North Dallas. More like Forest AVENUE in South Dallas, though I’m not sure of the street number.
The White Theatre was located at the Mall on Forest Lane. The building still stands. Forest Ave. (which is now Martin Luther King Dr.) had no mall. The antizue mall is still in former theatre building.
Sorry, Chuck, but the book is wrong this time – there never was a White Theater at the mall location on Forest LANE. That may be the site of some other former theater, but not the former Interstate theater spotlighted here – THIS theater WAS located on Forest AVENUE, part of which is now known as MLK Blvd.
Jeanette Howeth Crumpler, in her book about Dallas theaters of old, “Street of Dreams,” quotes Betty Garner on p. 202: “My grandmother and two aunts lived on South Boulevard (one block over from Forest Avenue/MLK). They would walk at night to the White Theater every time the shows changed…”
Ms. Garner also recalls working with her sister as a “candy girl” at the “old White Theater on Forest Avenue.”
Location of this theater STILL needs to be changed to Forest AVENUE.
BTW, Chuck, I do NOT mean to SHOUT when I capitalize – sorry! You are usually right on with your excellent info!
Matt, you are correct on this one too, there was a theatre on Forest Lane but not the White. The White Theatre was located on Forest Ave. and is still standing being used for some sort of retail. It was in the next block from the Colonial.
The address should be
1628 Forest Ave.
Dallas, Tx. 75215
I’ll bet you a dollar to a donut hole that there was no White theater at 1628 Forest ave in 1952. There may have been a white theater on Forest Ave but it wasn’t at 1628. !628 would put the theater a block from Forest Ave High School. I went to Forest Ave High School in 1952-53. Lets try to locate the real address of the theater. I know there were no theaters between Forest ave High and the Forest ave theater, so—-it must have been on past the Forest Ave theater. It had to have been. It could have been a mile or more from 1628 Forest Ave. I’m not aware the theater ever existed but I know it wasn’t a block from Forest High school.
Could this be it (see link)? http://www.flickr.com/photos/66262530@N08/6027614302/in/photostream
Matt’s link
Thanks, Chuck – I still haven’t figured out how to do that – how DO you do it?