Showboat Theatre
412 Sixth Street N.,
Texas City,
TX
77590
412 Sixth Street N.,
Texas City,
TX
77590
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The Showboat Theatre was opened around 1942.
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Barbara Mills
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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
My father, George Jolley, managed the theatre in the 60’s. I grew up there. Saw many great films. Johnny Long of LCL theatres owned it. Great theatre. Seated 1700 ppl. Lots of memories of the showboat.
I might have the seating capacity wrong but I know it had a large lower level of four sections. Two large sections in the middle seperated by a center isle and an two outside rows. It also had a very large balcony. Or at least it seemed large to me at the time.
The original Showboat Theatre was designed in 1941 by architect Ernest L. Shult, but might have opened in 1942. The house was on a list of theaters designed by Shult that was published in the 1950 Theatre Catalog.
A Texas Theatre is pictured in 1937 at top left of this page, but appears to be unlisted at CT: Boxoffice
my sister and I went without permission to watch “Grizzly” at the Showboat while my mom was at work and my father was deployed. I was 8 and she was 10. We had to walk back home in the dark afterwards. We lived behind the Lucky 7 convenience store. We were scared sh**less!