Angelo Civic Theater
1936 Sherwood Way,
San Angelo,
TX
76901
1936 Sherwood Way,
San Angelo,
TX
76901
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Dating from 1950, this freakish looking ex-cinema is now home to San Angelo’s community dramatists. They took over the former Parkway Theatre in 1980 and remodeled it in 1981.
The facade is long and low, with a tower on the right hand side. The marquee is nothing special, but the tower is bizarre. It is a stubby trapezoid with two poles mounted on the front face. Each pole is surmounted by a spiked metal ball with a very tall spike on top, and braced to the roof by four arched metal sheets.
The playhouse has painted the area over the marquee with a mural of 17th century people in a garden that looks just like the patterned wallpaper that was so popular when I was little.
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Seth Gaines
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This theater was built in 1950 as the Parkway. I filled that information out, but not all of the data displays in the entry.
Additional Info:
The Architect was Leonard R. Mauldin for R&R Theaters.
It was remodelled approximately 20 years ago when the Angelo Civic Theatre organization converted the movie house into a 275 seat live performance venue.
From 1961 a movie ad for for the Parkway Theater in San Angelo.
The mural is still missing in 2012.
Hello. I know this is probably a longshot asking this, but does anyone have any record of past managers who worked at the movies theatre. I am trying to locate the theatre my grandfather, Leonard Vittitow, managed years ago. He just recently passed at the age of 91. I found an article that said he was a manager of Angelus Theatre. I wasn’t sure if that was a typo or not. Thank you!
Hello TNiles. According to CinemaTour there was an Angelus Theatre in San Angelo at 30 West Beauregard Street. The building has since been demolished.