Capitol Theater
1521 Elm Street,
Dallas,
TX
75050
1521 Elm Street,
Dallas,
TX
75050
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The Capitol Theater was opened December 19, 1922. The famous Interstate Circuit opened it next door to the Rialto Theater, and the Mirror Theater was on the west side.
The Capitol Theater specialized in Saturday westerns and serials. Popular during its hey day, with the arrival of television, the old show house bit the dust in 1956 and was torn down during the 1960’s.
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A vintage postcard view of the Capitol Theater on Elm Street.
A old movie theater ad from 1949 for Capitol Theater.
A view of the Capitol Theater from 1938 at the world premier of “Under Western Stars” with western stars Roy Rogers and Smiley Burnette in attendance.
From 1933, a postcard view of the Capitol Theater on Elm Street in Dallas along with the Mirror, Old Mill and Palace.
From the 1930s a postcard view of the Capitol Theater on Theater Row in Dallas.
The exterior is very impressive. Sure wish someone could post some interior shots. I can’t imagine the style is “unknown”.
kathy, if you can get a copy of Jeanette Crumpler’s book about Dallas’s downtown movie theaters, “Street of Dreams,” there is an interior shot showing the screen/stage area on page 94.
75050 zipcode in address maps to Carrolton, TX, not Dallas; correct zip is 75201; that’ll get you to the correct block of downtown Dallas. Of course, the entire block of buildings in which the Capitol (and the Old Mill/Rialto, Ritz/Pantages/Mirror, Queen/Leo, and Telenews) sat is long, long gone.