Angelo Civic Theater

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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KellyProctor
KellyProctor on November 3, 2005 at 12:15 pm

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.

DonLewis
DonLewis on February 13, 2008 at 2:54 am

A 1987 photo of the former Parkway Theater building in San Angelo.

www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/2261292399

lostmemory
lostmemory on March 11, 2008 at 2:22 pm

Here is the website for the Angelo Civic Theater.

lostmemory
lostmemory on March 18, 2008 at 2:50 am

This is a recent photo.

lostmemory
lostmemory on March 10, 2009 at 2:30 am

A 2009 photo can be seen here. What happened to the mural?

lostmemory
lostmemory on September 16, 2009 at 9:09 pm

This link for the Angelo Civic Theater website should work.

Chuck1231
Chuck1231 on April 28, 2010 at 7:08 am

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.

DonLewis
DonLewis on September 25, 2010 at 3:17 pm

From 1961 a movie ad for for the Parkway Theater in San Angelo.

RoadsideArchitecture.com
RoadsideArchitecture.com on May 9, 2012 at 1:31 pm

The mural is still missing in 2012.

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