Dobie Theatre
2025 Guadalupe Street,
Austin,
TX
78705
2025 Guadalupe Street,
Austin,
TX
78705
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I was the GM that closed down the Dobie for Landmark. It was a sad sad day. I still miss it. I tried to save it every way I could with the little time I had, but it was not to be sadly.
The theatre closed in August of 2010.
I know alot of people would love to see something done with the space, but the rent is crazy expensive and without some serious hard work it could fail all over again.
It still looks like its in tact: the lobby is somewhat open to the public (the theaters I imagine are behind a hallway that’s locked. I spent the summer working at UT Austin and had walked through the mall a few times, it’s was pretty dead (then again it was the summer) with a stores appealing to mostly students. I’m wondering if SXSW will call upon the Dobie to provide the space they’ll be losing down at the Alamo South.
Bet it is tisloews.
Is it still closed?
The Dobie to close this Sunday. Very sad news.
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Pretty nice inside and out.
According to this article about a new art cinema soon to open in Austin, Landmark will no longer be managing the Dobie in the fall of 2010 and that mall management is looking for a new operator for the theater: View link
Landmark Theatres website.
This is a recent night view of the Dobie Theater.
Recent interior views of the Dobie Theater can be seen here and here.
Here is another photo of the Dobie Theater.
This is a recent photo of the Dobie Theater.
We will have to check further about when it went to movies. I think it was after 72. I had come home to Austin and was working various theaters around town at the time. The first film I saw there was sometime in the very early 70’s. IRC, it was a multimedia room at one time too. Seems like we watched the movie on a wide screen without masking and there was a very large glass wall of sorts in front of the projetion room. Vague memories so maybe someone can correct me if I’m wrong.
Here is a photo of the Dobie Theater.
The true Dobie seat count is 572, counting the makeout booth in the Egyptian room. Does anybody know when it was first used as a movie theatre? It was originally built as two lecture hall/meeting rooms, then converted to a two-screen theatre somewhere between 1970-72 and later to four screens in the mid 80s. I’m trying to nail down the actual year the Dobie first started running film.
This theater is below a towering dorm, where I lived from 1974-1976. Even then it showed mostly art, independent, soft-core, and foreign films. “King of Hearts,” “Going Places,” “Pink Flamingos,” and “The Cheerleaders” are among the many films I saw there. With hundreds of college students an elevator trip away, it’s no surprise this has stayed a busy place!
I doubt this theater holds 1200 people, even if you combine all 4 theaters. I’ll check this and get the information back to this website soon.