Rio Theater
6983 Main Street,
Frisco,
TX
75034
6983 Main Street,
Frisco,
TX
75034
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Functions: Fraternal Hall
Previous Names: Queen Theatre, Frisco Theatre, Gem Theatre
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Located in Frisco, TX, the city is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro center. An earlier Frisco Theatre operated in Frisco from 1915 to 1922 when it was destroyed by fire. (It has its own page on Cinema Treasures).
A new theatre was built on the site, using the original brick facade which had escaped undamaged in the fire. It opened as the Queen Theatre in 1922 and closed in 1932. The town was theatreless until 1935/1936 when the Frisco Theatre opened in a revamp of the former Queen Theatre building. The Frisco Theatre was still open in 1941. It was listed as (Closed) in the 1943 edition of Film Daily Yearbook. It reopened as the Gem Theatre and was last operated as the Rio Theater. It was gutted by fire in 1956. It never reopened and was repurposed as a Masonic Lodge.
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There are two Frisco Theatres in Frisco, with the other one operating for a short time during World War I.
The July 7, 1935 Film Daily ran this notice: “Frisco, Tex.—T. J. Farrington has opened the Frisco theater, a new house seating 200.”
This Facebook post from the Frisco Parks and Recreation Department indicates that the second Frisco Theatre was a reopening of the 1922 Queen Theatre. The house later changed names again, first to the Gem and finally to the Rio. This page and the page for the Rio (aka Gem) can be consolidated on the Queen’s page, which was the earliest posted for Frisco. The first Frisco was on the same lot as its successors, but was housed in a different building that was lost to a 1922 fire.
Same address, 6983 Main Street, Frisco, TX 75034.