Roxy Theater
1523 Monroe Street,
Wichita Falls,
TX
76309
1523 Monroe Street,
Wichita Falls,
TX
76309
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The Roxy is now an antiques mall.
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Ken McIntyre
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I’m going to add the Parker Square, since it doesn’t seem to be an aka for any of the theaters in Ken Roe’s list of 9/21/07.
Thanks for the explanation about the two theaters being different randini. The Roxy is still listed in the 1955 Film Daily but not the Parker Square. Maybe the Parker Square opened after 1955.
It opened in 1958.
Maybe what killed the Parker Square was the fact that it was a single screen house. Seating capacity was around 600, maybe bigger.
We should save these comments for the Parker Square Theater page when it gets posted.
According to this obituary the former Roxy was until recently the home of a used book store called the Cosmic Squire.
The owner of the Cosmic Squire Book & Music store died in Nov. 2009 and the family was considering selling the building or they may already have done so.
There are a couple of pictures on the Wichita Falls History Facebook page. I remember going to the Roxy and actually saw a silent movie there with my grandmother in the early 1940s. Don’t know why they were showing a silent movie since they showed sound films all of the time. The WF History Facebook page is great. I’ll be telling them about the Cinema Treasures website.
From 2011 a photo of the Roxy Theater Building in Wichita Falls.
On the Wichita Falls History Facebook pages, Julie Coley who used to run an antique store in the old Roxy Theatre building posted a recent article from the WFTimesRecordNews that a man in Wichita Falls has bought the entire strip and wants to restore all of the buildings as to their outside facades. That would be great to see.
Jeanette Crumpler in Dallas, TX
BTW Julie has a picture of the Roxy Theatre on her Photos page of the WFHistory Facebook website. I’m so grateful for her and for Don Lewis too in preserving much of the past.
Jeanette Crumpler in Dallas, TX