Alamo Theatre

Robert Lee, TX 76945

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The Alamo Theatre opened on October 15, 1935. It was was built for and operated by the Wojtek brothers, who also ran the Texas Theatre, Bronte, TX. Both theatres operated continuously into the late-1970’s.

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dorstar
dorstar on October 14, 2022 at 3:33 pm

Frank, Victor, and Otto Wojtek were the owners of the Alamo Theatre in Robert Lee, Texas. The theater opened for business on October 15, 1935.

chriscaffee
chriscaffee on August 2, 2023 at 2:55 pm

I did some research on the Wojtek Brothers. Otto was 35 years old when the brothers opened the Alamo. Victor was 26 and Frank was 22. There parents had come to Texas from Czechoslovakia and where in the 1900 US census. A year later in 1936, they opened the first Texas Theater in Brontë one year later. They built a second and larger Texas Theater in Brontë in 1948. They were their own designers and builders of all their theaters. All the brothers were married and in addition to the theater business, were involved in ranching in Coke County where Robert Lee (Population 1,027) is the county seat and Bronte is a smaller community (Population 999). The Texas in Bronte still stands today. All three men were married. Otto to Charlotte (He died in 1988, Age 88 and Charlotte died in 1999, Age 88 - both are buried in the Robert Lee Cemetery along with Otto’s parents. Otto was 11 years older than Charlotte. Marriage date unknown.) (Victor died in 1993 at the age of 83 and his wife, Ronda died in 2017 at the age of 95. They were married in 1940 when Victor was 31 and Ronda was 19. They are also buried in the Robert Lee Cemetery.) (Frank, Jr. was the baby of seven children and died at the age of 84 in 1997. His wife Zelma Jean evidently is still living at the age of 96. They were married in December of 1949 when Frank, Jr was 36 and Jean was 22.). Frank is buried in the cemetery at Brontë. They headstone also lists his wife. I wonder if they ran the theater in Bronte while Otto and Victor ran the business in Robert Lee. According to Ronda’s obituary, she had helped run the Alamo Theater along with helping the brothers run a skating rink that they owned in Robert Lee. The Alamo was evidently closed sometime in the 1970s. I don’t know exactly where it was located or if it still is standing.

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