King Theater
118 S. Kent Street,
Gorman,
TX
76454
118 S. Kent Street,
Gorman,
TX
76454
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Additional Info
Functions: Community Center
Previous Names: Ritz Theater, New Deal Theater
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Opened as the Ritz Theatre on July 2, 1929. It was renamed New Deal Theater in 1934, named for the "New Deal" program instituted by Franklin D Roosevelt in 1933.
It was renamed King Theater in 1937. The building has survived as of 2009 and is being used as the Gorman community center.
Contributed by
Billy Smith / Billy Holcomb / Don Lewis
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According to Hubert Craddock in an interview in 1957, H.L. Capers, Frank Gray, and Hubert Craddock leased an existing theatre in 1934 and renamed the theatre, “The New Deal”. At that time, Franklin D. Roosevelt had just been elected and everyone was talking about “the New Deal”, so these three men decided to change the name of an existing theatre at this location to “The New Deal”. In 1937, Hubert Craddock says that H.L. Capers renamed the theatre for the last time “The King”.