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giray commented about Village Theater on Jun 15, 2014 at 5:26 am

A note on the Circle drive in ,beaumont,texas. My family lived for a few years in the apartment under the screen. Nice to just walk out the back door and there was the screen above your head.It also had a playground and some seats in front of the screen. I forget what year, but there was a fire in the apartment while we were living there and it burnt the apartment and the screen. They installed new screen and remodeled the apartment.

giray
giray commented about Village Theater on Jun 15, 2014 at 4:46 am

Yes it was a nice movie house. My father Jack R. Butts managed the village theater in the 70s till 1980. Yes the roof caved in during a storm. Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolf was playing and the churches were all up in arms over it. As my father was the manager I got to see movies free. My father also managed The port theater on 9th ave in port arthur,texas before the village theater and The circle drive-in Theater in beaumont,texas before that.Also some time in there he managed The Neches theater in Port neches,texas and The Strand theater in Orange ,Texas.