Majestic Theatre
706 Scott Street,
Wichita Falls,
TX
76301
706 Scott Street,
Wichita Falls,
TX
76301
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Previously operated by: Interstate Theatres Inc. & Texas Consolidated Theaters Inc.
Previous Names: Palace Theatre
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Opened January 2, 1913, the Palace Theatre was the first of WF’s four large theatres with balconies. It was later renamed Majestic Theatre and was closed October 4, 1948. It was the first of the city’s theatres to be demolished, which was in December 1951, in order to provide a parking lot for the Kemp Hotel at 8th Street & Scott Street (itself since demolished for a Holiday Inn).
It was also the only one of the three to operate during the vaudeville and silent film era and thus also had a small orchestra pit and an organ (whereabouts unknown). It was part of the Paramount-affiliated Interstate Theatres Inc. circuit, as were the Gem Theatre, State Theatre, Strand Theatre, and Wichita Theatre.
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Recent comments (view all 4 comments)
From the early 1900s a postcard view of the Kemp Hotel that dwarfs the Majestic Theatre which is next door.
Wasn’t the Palace the Majestic before? The building showing the Palace was the same as the Majestic or at least looks like the same building.
I should have asked was the Majestic named the Palace before. I remember going to the Majestic in the 1940s but don’t remember a Palace Theatre in WF.
This opened as the Palace theatre on July 2nd, 1921, and reopened by Dent Theaters as the Majestic theatre on December 11th, 1926. Grand opening ads posted