Showboat Theatre
412 Sixth Street N.,
Texas City,
TX
77590
412 Sixth Street N.,
Texas City,
TX
77590
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Does anyone know anything about the old Showboat in downtown Texas City, Texas?
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Barbara Mills
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Looks like it’s a banquet hall:
http://tinyurl.com/2vm5ab
Banquet hall sounds good. Whatever it is, the status should be Closed.
A photo of the Showboat Theater is posted on www.texasescapes.com under Architecture, followed by Texas Theaters.
The original Showboat was torn down in the 1990’s by the city because it was considered dangerous and too costly to renovate. A new pavilion/banquet hall was built on the site and hosts parties and civic gatherings. When a new multiscreen cinema was opened in another part of Texas City in the 1970’s, interestingly near the site of what once was the Tradewinds Drive In Theater, the Showboat closed for good. I remember seeing my first movie, “Pinocchio” at the Showboat as a small child in the early 70’s. Don’t remember much about the movie, just the huge, at least through a child’s eyes, Showboat designed into the terrazzo floor in the lobby of the theater.
BTW, I forgot to mention that the new pavilion, as you see in the photo posted earlier, is a smaller replica of the original theater.
In that case, this former theater should be listed as Closed/Demolished and function would be Unknown.
A 2003 photo of the “new” Showboat and a photo of original Showboat in Texas City. The original has been demolished.
The theater was in need of rehab in 1990:
http://tinyurl.com/dxe8fh
Here are two 1984 photos:
Photo1
Photo2
I saw the first Batman movie (1966 with Adam West) at the Texas City Showboat for my 8 year old birthday party with some other Texas City boys. It is one of my fondest childhood memories. – tom morgan