East Grand Theater
5439A East Grand Street,
Dallas,
TX
75201
5439A East Grand Street,
Dallas,
TX
75201
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Great pix, Don. Thanks. Love your photostream, btw.
Motion Picture Times of July 7, 1928, says: “While Holger Jorgensen and Mrs. Jorgensen are motoring through Colorado, Walter Jorgensen is in charge of the East Grand, Dallas neighborhood house.”
From 2010 the East Grand’s building remnants, a decorative interior mosaic tile floor and the sidewalk entrance.
That ad nails it, Chuck – East Grand it is! Should’ve checked it first. Thanks.
Matt, I don’t know if it helps but the newspaper ad that Don Lewis links to on 3/15/09 shows the theatre as being the East Grand. I don’t think they would advertise East Grand if it was just caslled the Grand.
I am wondering if the opening of the Major (aka Lido), at 2830 Samuell Blvd (just a couple of blocks east of this theater) around 1950 directly led to the closing of the East Grand the following year.
Also, a poster on another nostalgia site dedicated to Dallas corrected me the other day when I referred to this theater as the EAST Grand – he said there was no “EAST” to it, it was just the GRAND; anybody know any of this for sure?
In the book “The Old Movie Theatre of Texas” it lists the East Grand closed in 1951, it also says that it was operating in the mid-1930’s.
Status should be changed to Closed/Demolished. Where this small walk-in once stood is clearly visible, as the concrete floor and surrounding walls remain, but the space is open to the air and used as a parking lot for a bridal shop immediately adjacent to the NW.
An old movie theater ad from 1949 for the East Grand Theater.