My family moved from Grand Prairie, Texas, to Roswell in April of 1946 to be near my father who was hospitalized there for a work-related accident. (He was a telephone lineman.) I was eight. My mother and I took rooms right behind the Yucca Theatre, which was showing “Two Sisters from Boston.” We lived back and forth between Roswell and Clovis for the next eight years, finally settling permanently in Roswell in 1954. In my senior year of high school, I was an usher for the Griffith Theatres (Plains, Yucca, Pecos, and Chief). My memories of theatres in Clovis and Roswell in the 1950s are at http://robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/new-mexico-movie-houses-of-my-youth/
I would welcome comments or memories about these theatres from anyone else my age.
Thank you, Mel :–) for the wonderful photos of the renovated Lyceum. I am sure that somewhere in Clovis there are such photos from the 1950s. There were photographers in the town who specialized in making photos of the interiors and exteriors of businesses for onwers or managers to hang in their offices.
Does anyone remember an early 1950’s restaurant called The Aristocrat? My parents, Stan and Jo Curkee, ran it. Some women’s clubs held luncheons there. I’d really apreciate any photos of it. , rbrtptrck
Does anyone remember an early 1950’s restaurant called The Aristocrat? My parents, Stan and Jo Curkee, ran it. Some women’s clubs held luncheons there. I’d really apreciate any photos of it. , rbrtptrck
Does anyone remember an early 1950’s restaurant called The Aristocrat? My parents, Stan and Jo Curkee, ran it. Some women’s clubs held luncheons there. I’d really apreciate any photos of it. , rbrtptrck
Thank you, Don, for posting my message. As to the “chance encounters,” which would of course be inappropriate for this site, I do wish someone would write “The Secret Life of Cinemas”
You can see wonderful photos of the Mesa and the State, plus several other New Mexico movie theatres, HERE. Please copy this link to other New Mexico theatre pages
Many, many wonderful stories and photos of Kansas theatres from Abilene to Yates Center can be found HERE<<<.
PLEASE copy this post and post it on every Kansas theatres page.
Thank you.
Apparently the Pecos was, back in the silent days, called both the Liberty and The Princess. There seems to be some confusion as to which name was first.
I have a bad Xerox copy of a small photo of it as The Princess labeled 1917, with posters for a 1917 movie called “The Runaway.” On this photo is the caption, “Previously The Liberty,” but I have another poor Xerox copy of a large photo of it as The Liberty, labeled 1919, with posters for “The Shepherd of the Hills,” a 1919 release, and a poster for a matinee of “When a Man loves” starring Earle Williams, also 1919. So it can’t have been The Liberty first.
Interesting design note: The Princess Theater seems to have as its emblem a painting of a Native American princess (although the poor imaging makes this speculative), while The Liberty flaunts a rather large replica of The Statue of Liberty (and also an arrangement of lights and a big star which make me suspect the photo was taken at Xmas time).
Both photos show a fancy arched facade (mixed Greek, Roman, and perhaps Arab and/or Rococo elements of design). The Princess has a plain architrave above the fancy arch, but the Liberty has nude fairy and Cupid scultures and other ornaments on the architrave.
The Princess' sign (which looks as if it might contain small light-bulbs within each letter) is on the architrave, while the Liberty’s sign and statue are on top of the flat-roofed building. A strip of fancy ornament above the Prncess' sign has been replaced in the Liberty pic by a plain stretch of masonry or plaster.
North of the Liberty is a three-story clothing store caled “Duffy’s For Men.” South of it is a cut-off sign reading “French & Dau—–” “Insurance-Real Es—–”
If you would like to see these VERY POOR images, please e-mail me at
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A 1959 Clovis High School graduate recalls bits about lots of Clovis theatres on this page: http://www.rednett.com/Bits.html
Search for the two paragraphs beginning
“I remember all the theaters and drive-ins"
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A 1959 Clovis High School graduate recalls bits about lots of Clovis theatres on this page: http://www.rednett.com/Bits.html
Search for the two paragraphs beginning
“I remember all the theaters and drive-ins"
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My family moved from Grand Prairie, Texas, to Roswell in April of 1946 to be near my father who was hospitalized there for a work-related accident. (He was a telephone lineman.) I was eight. My mother and I took rooms right behind the Yucca Theatre, which was showing “Two Sisters from Boston.” We lived back and forth between Roswell and Clovis for the next eight years, finally settling permanently in Roswell in 1954. In my senior year of high school, I was an usher for the Griffith Theatres (Plains, Yucca, Pecos, and Chief). My memories of theatres in Clovis and Roswell in the 1950s are at http://robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/new-mexico-movie-houses-of-my-youth/ I would welcome comments or memories about these theatres from anyone else my age.
JOE VOGEL – never heard of the Rex. if you find out anything about it, please let me know at
My memories of theatres in Clovis and Roswell in the 1950s http://robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/new-mexico-movie-houses-of-my-youth/
My memories of theatres in Clovis and Roswell in the 1950s http://robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/new-mexico-movie-houses-of-my-youth/
My memories of theatres in Clovis and Roswell in the 1950s http://robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/new-mexico-movie-houses-of-my-youth/
My memories of theatres in Clovis and Roswell in the 1950s http://robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/new-mexico-movie-houses-of-my-youth/
My memories of theatres in Clovis and Roswell in the 1950s http://robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/new-mexico-movie-houses-of-my-youth/
My memories of theatres in Clovis and Roswell in the 1950s http://robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/new-mexico-movie-houses-of-my-youth/
My memories of theatres in Clovis and Roswell in the 1950s http://robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/new-mexico-movie-houses-of-my-youth/
Thank you, Mel :–) for the wonderful photos of the renovated Lyceum. I am sure that somewhere in Clovis there are such photos from the 1950s. There were photographers in the town who specialized in making photos of the interiors and exteriors of businesses for onwers or managers to hang in their offices.
Mister Throop (sorry for the typo before). You’re welcome. I love to talk about these theatres. It brings back my youth.
Bob Throopo—The Plains had no balcony, so the movie must have been at the Yucca, which did.
NOTE: I can no longer find the images of the Princess and Liberty theatres I mentioned in my last note. Sorry.
Does anyone remember an early 1950’s restaurant called The Aristocrat? My parents, Stan and Jo Curkee, ran it. Some women’s clubs held luncheons there. I’d really apreciate any photos of it. , rbrtptrck
Does anyone remember an early 1950’s restaurant called The Aristocrat? My parents, Stan and Jo Curkee, ran it. Some women’s clubs held luncheons there. I’d really apreciate any photos of it. , rbrtptrck
Does anyone remember an early 1950’s restaurant called The Aristocrat? My parents, Stan and Jo Curkee, ran it. Some women’s clubs held luncheons there. I’d really apreciate any photos of it. , rbrtptrck
Thank you, Don, for posting my message. As to the “chance encounters,” which would of course be inappropriate for this site, I do wish someone would write “The Secret Life of Cinemas”
I find it appropriate that the Lobo should become a church, for it is where I attended a dozen showings of “Gigi,” which I certainly worship.
Marvelous photos of this beautiful theatre and other Texas movie houses HERE.
You can see wonderful photos of the Mesa and the State, plus several other New Mexico movie theatres, HERE. Please copy this link to other New Mexico theatre pages
Many, many wonderful stories and photos of Kansas theatres from Abilene to Yates Center can be found HERE<<<.
PLEASE copy this post and post it on every Kansas theatres page.
Thank you.
Apparently the Pecos was, back in the silent days, called both the Liberty and The Princess. There seems to be some confusion as to which name was first.
I have a bad Xerox copy of a small photo of it as The Princess labeled 1917, with posters for a 1917 movie called “The Runaway.” On this photo is the caption, “Previously The Liberty,” but I have another poor Xerox copy of a large photo of it as The Liberty, labeled 1919, with posters for “The Shepherd of the Hills,” a 1919 release, and a poster for a matinee of “When a Man loves” starring Earle Williams, also 1919. So it can’t have been The Liberty first.
Interesting design note: The Princess Theater seems to have as its emblem a painting of a Native American princess (although the poor imaging makes this speculative), while The Liberty flaunts a rather large replica of The Statue of Liberty (and also an arrangement of lights and a big star which make me suspect the photo was taken at Xmas time).
Both photos show a fancy arched facade (mixed Greek, Roman, and perhaps Arab and/or Rococo elements of design). The Princess has a plain architrave above the fancy arch, but the Liberty has nude fairy and Cupid scultures and other ornaments on the architrave.
The Princess' sign (which looks as if it might contain small light-bulbs within each letter) is on the architrave, while the Liberty’s sign and statue are on top of the flat-roofed building. A strip of fancy ornament above the Prncess' sign has been replaced in the Liberty pic by a plain stretch of masonry or plaster.
North of the Liberty is a three-story clothing store caled “Duffy’s For Men.” South of it is a cut-off sign reading “French & Dau—–” “Insurance-Real Es—–”
If you would like to see these VERY POOR images, please e-mail me at
See my comment on the Texan Theatre at
/theaters/18144/
I describe a theatre across the street from it which might have been the Wings.
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A 1959 Clovis High School graduate recalls bits about lots of Clovis theatres on this page:
http://www.rednett.com/Bits.html
Search for the two paragraphs beginning
“I remember all the theaters and drive-ins"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^
A 1959 Clovis High School graduate recalls bits about lots of Clovis theatres on this page:
http://www.rednett.com/Bits.html
Search for the two paragraphs beginning
“I remember all the theaters and drive-ins"
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