Texas Theatre
110 E. Main Street ,
Grand Prairie,
TX
75050
110 E. Main Street ,
Grand Prairie,
TX
75050
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The original 312-seat Texas Theatre was opened by 1927. It suffered a major fire in early-1931 and was rebuilt. The Texas Theatre burned again in 1943.
It was replaced in 1944 by a new Texas Theatre.
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Randy A Carlisle
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J. S. Walker of the Texas Theatre, Grand Prairie, was a frequent contributor of capsule movie reviews to various theater industry trade journals as early as March, 1926.
Items from the Grand Prairie Daily News from January through early April, 1931 reveal that the Texas Theatre suffered a major fire early that year and was “practically rebuilt,” reopening at the end of March. J. S. Walker was still operating the Texas at least as late as 1940.
From my understanding, the Texas & Texan was 2 totally different theater’s. 2 different locations.. Anyone??
Randy A. Carlisle: The photos we have definitely show two different buildings. As we have a photo of the Texas dating from 1946 and another with a 1948 movie on the marquee, it’s obvious that some sort of mistake has been made in the theater descriptions. The name Texas Theatre shows up in the local paper all through the 1930s and into the 1940s, but I haven’t found the name Texan Theatre in it. Neither have I found any articles about a fire in 1943, only the one article about the reopening after the fire in 1931.