Lynn Theatre
512 St. Paul Street,
Gonzales,
TX
78629
512 St. Paul Street,
Gonzales,
TX
78629
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This theater sits on Confederate Square. A local told me it was named for the owner, a Mr. Lynn.
The facade is very interesting, almost a Bauhaus style. The Lynn Theatre opened in 1947. The vertical portion of the marquee is especially cool, with a pattern of stars and a pole on top with a light on it (which seems to be a popular feature for Texas theaters).
The Lynn Theatre was reopened on June 24, 2009 as a movie theatre, but was closed in April 2010. The building was sold in September 2011, and reopened as a live theatre March 15, 2012. First-run films were added to the programming from November 2012.
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You are welcome and Happy New Year!!!!
When in the planning stage, this house was to be called the Texan Theatre, and that was the name on the vertical sign in architect Jack Corgan’s rendering of the proposed house, displayed in the “Just Off the Boards” feature of Boxoffice Magazine, March 1, 1947. The theater was being built for Lynn Smith, local associate of H.J. Griffith’s Theatre Enterprises Inc., and he apparently got the house after himself instead of using the name Texan. Smith also operated the Crystal Theatre in Gonzales.
The Boxoffice item gives the seating capacity as 900, and I think that’s probably much closer to the mark than the 1,200 given in the article from the San Antonio Express-News. The satellite views (the best is at Historic Images- the views at Google and Bing are both too blurry) show that the building is not very large, so even the Boxoffice claim of 900 could have been a bit exaggerated, as is often the case.
Anyway, by calc’s count in the comment of last May 27, the current seating capacity would be 435, if you include the 12 wheelchair spaces.
Boxoffice of October 2, 1948, gave the opening date of the Lynn Theatre as September 29.
Here is the Christmas Eve photo again:
http://tinyurl.com/y9p9e8l
I’m sad to say it might not be in operation any more. This Easter weekend I passed through Gonzales and the TOOTH FAIRY is still in the poster boxes. Last time their web site was updated was Feb. 12, 2010 with THE TOOTH FAIRY listed for that date. Damn it, I hope they can get it going again.
“For sale” – photo from April 2011: http://www.agilitynut.com/11/4/thelynn2.jpg
photo link
Here is a fresh link to the March 1, 1947, Boxoffice item with architect Jack Corgan’s rendering of the proposed Texan Theatre in Gonzales, which was opened as the Lynn Theatre.
Theatre opens March 16th 2012 as live theater.
the theatre is open now it re opened on november 2 2012 and is showing first run movies
Great! Good news for the community.