Reading about the Tower brings back a lot of memories. Saturday morning movies with a serial and at least three cartoons started at about 9:00 AM. Popcorn was a dime. After the morning show the theater closed for a short time and then reopened for the regular feature. If you were lucky enough to have a dollar you could spend the whole day and have all the drinks, candy and popcorn that you could hold.
My older brother started his career with Interstate theaters at the Tower as an usher. He quickly advanced to chief usher and later to assistant manager in the chain before getting his own theater in Galveston (Broadway) at the age of twenty-one.
If anyone has any pictures from the late 1940’s or early 50s of the theater please submit them.
Reading about the Tower brings back a lot of memories. Saturday morning movies with a serial and at least three cartoons started at about 9:00 AM. Popcorn was a dime. After the morning show the theater closed for a short time and then reopened for the regular feature. If you were lucky enough to have a dollar you could spend the whole day and have all the drinks, candy and popcorn that you could hold.
My older brother started his career with Interstate theaters at the Tower as an usher. He quickly advanced to chief usher and later to assistant manager in the chain before getting his own theater in Galveston (Broadway) at the age of twenty-one.
If anyone has any pictures from the late 1940’s or early 50s of the theater please submit them.