Bowie Theater
3858 Camp Bowie Boulevard,
Fort Worth,
TX
76107
3858 Camp Bowie Boulevard,
Fort Worth,
TX
76107
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Moderately-sized Art Moderne theater on Camp Bowie Boulevard. Featured a fabulous vertical neon sign that could be spotted from a great distance in either direction on the Boulevard.
The theater closed sometime in the 1980’s and was later converted into a bank, which interestingly enough, kept the Bowie marquee and nicely incorporated the Art Moderne elements into the renovation.
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Bob Whitworth
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photo:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~cirillo/bowie.jpg
I believe I saw Jaws at this theater during it’s original release. I would have been 4 years old. Why did my parents take me to see this at such a young age? Maybe thats why I don’t like to go to the beach. I remember when this closed and turned into a bank. In my youthful ignorance, I protested that I would never set foot into it again.
Here is the page containing TC’s photo. You can’t post the individual photos, apparently:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~cirillo/fwsights.htm
Here are interior and exterior photos by Michael Putnam:
http://tinyurl.com/ysnl5a
http://tinyurl.com/ytyj7v
Here is additional information and photos of the bank.
Here is a photo of the Bowie Theater featuring “A Clockwork Orange” in 1971.
www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/2256642778
In 1955 the Bowie Theater had 912 seats.
Here are 1982 photos:
Photo1
Photo2
Photo3
I currently work at the Frost Bank located in the Bowie Theater and would like to make a scrap book about its history. Does anyone have photos of inside the theater before it was converted to a bank?
The Bowie was built before the advent of CinemaScope and did not have an extremely wide auditorium. On top of that, the screen area was enclosed by walls that sectioned off the emergency exits located on either side of the screen. Consequently, when the Bowie ran a widescreen movie the picture size was reduced which created an effect similar to watching a letterboxed DVD. Non-widescreen movies filled the screen and looked fine.
Regardless, I saw many movies at the Bowie such as GONE WITH THE WIND, CABARET, SKIDOO, HALF A SIXPENCE, KING KONG and many others. In its latter years it was a bargain house with reduced admissions.