Wilshire Theater
6101 E. Mockingbird Lane,
Dallas,
TX
75214
6101 E. Mockingbird Lane,
Dallas,
TX
75214
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Located on the south side of E. Mockingbird Lane, three doors down from the corner of Skillman Street. The Wilshire Theater was opened on October 4, 1946. It was demolished in 1978.
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Photographs of the Wilshire Theater from the Dallas Public Library’s Dallas/Texas History collection:
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Opening newspaper announcement for the Wilshire Theater, published October 4th, 1946, from a flickr collection by rivest266:
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The Wilshire was a lovely theater right up until its death. Always ran first-run pictures, always a good presentation, always a good and attentive staff – just the epitome of what a dignfied single-screen walk-in should be.
In a way, it’s a shame the current market will not support a resurgence of such a theater as this was – that all we can hope for in new construction is the multi-screen megaplex where the sound from the latest action/s-fx blockbuster bleeds through the wall into the auditorium showing a nice dialogue/character-driven film.
The grand opening of the Wilshire Theatre in 1946 attracted news coverage by a future enemy: boxofficemagazine