Coronet Theater
2420 N. Fitzhugh Street,
Dallas,
TX
75204-3444
2420 N. Fitzhugh Street,
Dallas,
TX
75204-3444
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The Coronet Theater was operating in 1950, with a phone number of TAylor 9489.
Contributed by
Billy Smith / Billy Holcomb / Don Lewis
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The Coronet building remained standing in a rough part of Dallas (how may places aren’t rough in Dallas!?) and recognizable as a theater as late as 1997. It had been painted over in one ugly color and turned into a sleazy night club. Anyone out there know when it was demolished?
AKA:
EDISON
MEXICO.
Open from ABOUT 1949-1976, can anyone come up with more exact dates?
The Coronet was set to open on December 28, said Boxoffice of December 18, 1948. Alfred Sack, new operator of the remodeled theater, intended to show foreign language and art films with a top admission of sixty cents. The item didn’t say if the Coronet had been renamed, only that it had been remodeled.
A December 24, 1953, Boxoffice item said that Sack had opened the Coronet “…in an abandoned and four-times closed small and unsuccessful neighborhood film house.”
I thought the story vaguely sounded familiar as I was writing my previous comment, so I double checked and, sure enough, this theater is already listed at Cinema Treasures under its final name, the Mexico, and I’d already posted lots of information about it on that page last year.
Thanks for the tipoff with the aka’s, Bob. I probably wouldn’t have realized the duplication existed if I hadn’t seen them.