Fair Theatre
717 Broadway Street,
Plainview,
TX
79072
717 Broadway Street,
Plainview,
TX
79072
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Plainview, Texas -- The Fair Theatre
Additional Info
Functions: Concerts, Live Theater
Styles: Prairie School, Streamline Moderne
Previous Names: Plainview Theatre
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
806.293.4000
Manager:
806.293.4000
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News About This Theater
- Oct 5, 2006 — Fair Theater now open
The 650-seat Plainview Theatre was opened in 1925. It was designed in the Prairie school style, with the street level receiving a Streamline Moderne style update at some point (although the old purple glass transoms remain). It’s a simple tan brick structure with white accents, and rather a lot of windows for a cinema. The vertical marquee seems to date from the late-1920’s or early-1930’s. It’s been turned into a community theatre, and the lobby looks rather opulent.
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Seth Gaines
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Here is a photo of the Fair, after restoration:
http://tinyurl.com/qooxc
The Fair is now open for live theater and concerts.
Here is the website:
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Story on the Fair and Granada theaters in Plainview:
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My photo of the FAIR sign and portion of the front of the theater
www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/261979121
Good to see that it is still being used, and from their website looks real nice,seats over 500 now.
This house opened in 1925 as the Plainview Theatre. It was listed as such in the 1926 FDY with seating for 650. An article about the project in the April 18, 1925 Exhibitors Herald said that construction was underway, and noted that the new building would replace an existing Plainview Theatre, and that it had been designed by Amarillo architect Lawrence Kerr.