Exira Theatre

dallasmovietheaters on October 12, 2019 at 4:40 am

This long-running entertainment venue in downtown Exira opened in July of 1912 as the Exira Picture Show. It was created after the Exira Opera House experimented successfully with motion pictures in 1911 and 1912.

George Prall purchase the operation changing its name to the Picture Palace on December 26: 1912. The Exira Opera House closed a year later as the town supported film over live events. In 1914, the theatre was called the Palace Theatre. Under new operators, the theatre converted to sound. It closed briefly three times during the Depression but continued as the Palace Theatre.

It received a streamline makeover in 1938 but suffered a fire in 1943 badly damaging the building and closing the venue. New operators repaired the venue relaunching it as the Kozy Theatre in 1944. New operators took on the theatre in 1947 and would change the name of the business to the Exira Theatre which closed in 1955 as TV challenged small town theaters nationwide.