Leon Theatre
123 N. Texas Street,
De Leon,
TX
76444
123 N. Texas Street,
De Leon,
TX
76444
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Once part of the H&H Theatre Circuit.
The Leon Theatre launched April 3, 1947 by A.R.Parsons and H.L. Millington in a converted retail spot at 123 North Texas Street. In its planning stages, the pair had considered the name, the Atomic Theatre. A year later, H&H Theatre Circuit of Abilene run by Howard T. Hodge and Homer Hodge took over both the Leon and the Texas Theatre.
Hodge passed away and the theaters were sold to Leonard Scales. Scales launched the Weeping Oak Drive In in 1951 soon closing the Texas Theatre. The Leon closed in 1960. It reopened on March 13, 1963 with Jerry Lewis in “It’s Only Money.” It does not appear to have made it to the end of its 20-year lease. It then became an auto parts store under the Western Auto chain in 1971. The Weeping Oak Drive-In continued to 1983.
Same theater? From the Feb. 1, 1947 issue of BoxOffice:
De Leon, Tex. – H. L. Millington and A. R. Parsons will open their new Atomic Theatre here March 15. They have leased a store building with a high ceiling and are having Lupe Romero of Dallas do the conversion job. The 475-seater will have a balcony, rest rooms and probably a cry room.
Millington is in the auto business at Comanche, 15 miles from here. Parsons worked for many years as projectionist at M. D. Stewart’s Texas, which was sold to J. R. Miller a year ago.
A movie calendar from 1949 for the Leon Theater in De Leon Texas.