Texas Theatre
Jacksboro,
TX
76458
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The Opera House was on the west side of the square according to the Jacksboro Gazette in 1902.
Evidently, there was a theatre in this building before the Texas Theatre. I noticed a mention in the Jacksboro County Deed records about a theatre called “The Palace” that could have been in the same building as what is now called “The Texas Theatre”.
The June 8, 1944 issue of The Jacksboro Gazette had an ad for the Texas Theatre with the line “Formerly the Jack.” The name of the house had changed after a new owner took over in May, but this was the earliest ad I’ve found noting the former name. The Jack Theatre was advertised in the paper at least as early as August 20, 1942.
What I have not yet been able to discover is whether the Jack/Texas Theatre was the same house that had operated as the Opera House Theatre at least as late as December, 1939. The Opera House had become predominantly a movie theatre in 1910, and in the mid-1930s had been operated as the Opera House Picture Show. The Opera House was apparently an upstairs theater, if I’ve correctly interpreted the phrase “…it is ‘all balcony’….” used in an article in the March 30, 1939 issue of the Gazette (scan at The Portal to Texas History.)