Angelo Civic Theater
1936 Sherwood Way,
San Angelo,
TX
76901
1936 Sherwood Way,
San Angelo,
TX
76901
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Dating from 1950, this freakish looking ex-cinema is now home to San Angelo’s community dramatists. They took over the former Parkway Theatre in 1980 and remodeled it in 1981.
The facade is long and low, with a tower on the right hand side. The marquee is nothing special, but the tower is bizarre. It is a stubby trapezoid with two poles mounted on the front face. Each pole is surmounted by a spiked metal ball with a very tall spike on top, and braced to the roof by four arched metal sheets.
The playhouse has painted the area over the marquee with a mural of 17th century people in a garden that looks just like the patterned wallpaper that was so popular when I was little.
Contributed by
Seth Gaines
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This theater was built in 1950 as the Parkway. I filled that information out, but not all of the data displays in the entry.
Additional Info:
The Architect was Leonard R. Mauldin for R&R Theaters.
It was remodelled approximately 20 years ago when the Angelo Civic Theatre organization converted the movie house into a 275 seat live performance venue.
A 1987 photo of the former Parkway Theater building in San Angelo.
www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/2261292399
Here is the website for the Angelo Civic Theater.
This is a recent photo.
A 2009 photo can be seen here. What happened to the mural?
1984 Photo
This link for the Angelo Civic Theater website should work.
When the Parkway opened it was operated by Rowley United Theatre, United Artists took over the theatre oeprations in 1967 and operated it until it closed in 1980.
From 1961 a movie ad for for the Parkway Theater in San Angelo.