Rialto Theater
408 W. Main Street,
Brownfield,
TX
79316
408 W. Main Street,
Brownfield,
TX
79316
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The Rialto Theater was opened May 7, 1925 with Lillian Rich in “The Golden Bed”. It was the first movie theatre in Brownfield to install sound on October 4, 1929. Now old and dilapidated, it is hanging on as small local concert venue. It was a neat theater that switched to Spanish language movies in the mid-1960’s. It was owned and operated by the Jones family. It fits in on a deserted downtown street in Brownfield.
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Don Lewis
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Here is another photo of the Rialto:
http://tinyurl.com/hbpu7
My photograph of the RIALTO www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/221637519/
It looks to me like it burned sometime after that 2004 photo was taken.
Why do you say that?
Here is another 2007 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/35smzg
Does anyone know if it is for sale? i had heard it was off and on and one guy owned it but had another and both were shot,, i blieve there is another theater just down the road that was bad owned by the same guy?
Here’s a photo that was just posted on instagram although it’s undated: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7v-8fEnzFY/
The artwork seems to have been restored. It is currently for sale.
I went through Brownfield again in 10/2021 and there seems to be a new painting on this theater. Not sure who covered the western artwork with A Stary Sky copy and red accents. Maybe the owner is trying to make it more attractive to sell. The western one was more meaningful to this part of Texas’s history.
Status: I would vote for “closed.” It opened with “The Golden Bed” May 7, 1925. It was the first local theater to install sound on October 4, 1929.