Circle Theater
2711 Storey Lane,
Dallas,
TX
5220
2711 Storey Lane,
Dallas,
TX
5220
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Some photos I took of the Circle Theatre 2006 .. Enjoy… Randy A Carlisle – Historical Photographer
I pass this theater on my way to work. It looks like it is not a functioning business anymore. Does anyone know who the owner may be and if it is, in fact, “in business”?
matt54.. sorry for the long delay in the return response. Yep, I shoot when-ever & where-ever I can. I now have 3,000 photos up on my flickr pages! www.flickr.com/photos/racphotography .. Enjoy! RAC Photography
matt54.. sorry for the long delay in the return response. Yep, I shoot when-ever & where-ever I can. I now have 3,000 photos up on my flickr pages! www.flickr.com/photos/racphotography .. Enjoy! RAC Photography
I live on Storey Lane. Been there since the mid 1960s. When our family walked to the theatre, we would pass by the lumber yard which is across Denton Drive. In front of the lumber yard, we would pick up pecans and eat them in the theatre. I did go to the circle bowl too.
“Had I been actually driving, I’d have have been in a collision for sure.” Ha-ha, Joe, ya gotta love Google Maps!
I, too, miss the comment preview function, but I miss the ability to search for theaters specifically by their previous names even more.
Google Maps still puts the pin icon for this theater on the wrong stretch of Storey Lane, about half a mile from its actual location, which is way over by Denton Drive. I managed to move the Street View to the theater anyway (take that, Google,) though I got lost in the interchange twice. Had I been actually driving, I’d have have been in a collision for sure.
It’s too bad there is now no “preview” function, as there was with the older format. Can we get that back?
Hey, Randy, how have you been? Done any shooting lately?
matt54… Thank You!!! I knew someone on here would know. IT stumped me big time when I saw the photo as I’ve looked to no avail to find that name anywhere.. Appreciate it!!
Randy, that was the name of the club that occupied it right after the theatre closed. IIRC, late 70’s?
Would anyone have a Clue why at one time, The Circle Theatre was called The OLD Theatre?? Here’s a shot a buddy of mine came across.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdorn/5820269500 .. Thanx.. RAC Photography
Here is a photo of the Circle Theatre as it sits today, in the block of Storey LANE (NOT Storey Street) presently identified as the 2700 block, NOT the 2100 block.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63574356@N06/5785362657/in/photostream
Chuck – any idea where that older Circle Theatre was located?
I was in this theater several times in the late 60’s and very early 70’s – I believe its seating capacity was considerably more than 500 seats, perhaps half again that number, but no more than that.
My very first job at age 14 in 1966 was at Circle Bowl, the bowling alley just south of the theater. Mopped floors, emptied ashtrays and picked up the empty beer bottles. It had several pinballs and one coin-op pool table. I played the beer drinkers 8-ball. Across the traffic circle was the seafood restaurant which I recall was named the Bounty. Shaped like a ship. Nearby it was Perry’s Circle-D drive-in. It had 2 coin-op pool tables. Played the drunks there, too. It had dice games out side in the back. Also close by: Tower Motel’s Bamboo room, Southern Kitchen, Circle Inn. For me the theater was a place to practice making out! David
Thanks, The old books listed it as 2100 Storey St. address got changed when the interstate was built.
Mike….If you use the address 2711 Storey Lane, Google maps will show this building.
Google missed it shot, the Street view of the theatre is at View link
The November 15, 1947, issue of Boxoffice said that 5000 people turned out for the well-publicized grand opening of the Circle Theatre. A live outdoor show was presented as well as an indoor stage show, featuring such regional celebrities as Ernest Tubb and his Grand Ole Opry show. Interstate Theatres even presented a fireworks display to give their new house a proper launch.
My image of the old Circle Theater:
View link
It looks like it’s now a Latino club. I remember back in the early 80’s it was a club/concert hall called The Ritz. The seats were all gone, obviously, but a lot of the interior murals and grand staircases were still there back then. Wonder what the interior looks like now.
The restaurant was the Spanish Galleon, and yes, it was built like a ship on the outside and had all kinds of nets and rigging inside as the decor. There was another one at Lemmon and N. Hall streets in the 70’s, I think. Also, the Circle Inn came down a few years ago.
I remember going to the Circle as a kid in 1960s. Today it sort of sits all by its lonesome but back then, Northwest highway actually had the circle intersection and there was a motel called the Circle Inn or something, and a Circle Bowling alley. At one time there was a seafood restaurant that I want to say was called ‘The Galleon’ that sat next to the roundabout (circle intersection) that was built to look like an old sailing ship.
It may be curtains for the iconic old Circle Theater building in Dallas. It appears to be in the construction path of a new commuter rail line. More images here, here and here.
The Circle Theater is listed in 1955 with 1,050 seats. The address for the bingo hall is 2711 Storey Lane.