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Nov 16, 2008 · Cinemark, a local company, bought out the Cineplex area theaters in 1986. They're still around, having built several of the typical multi-plex boxes around North Texas. But the original Fort Worth group of ABC/Plitt theaters are all sadly gone now. Wedgwood ran as a Cinemark Theater until 92 or so.
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The first show on the row could trace its lineage to a time before motion pictures even existed. In 1883 Walter Huffman built the Fort Worth Opera Houseat the corner of East 3rd and Commerce streets. After Huffman died in 1890 Phil Greenwall bought the opera house from Huffman’s heirs and operated it as “Greenwall’s Opera House.” Greenwall and brot...
On November 26, 1927 the Palace got its first sibling—and its first competition—when the Worth Theateropened. The Worth Theater was located in the Worth Hotel. (W. D. Smith photo in Fort Worth in Pictures.) The Worth proclaimed itself to be “Texas’ finest theater.” “‘First nighters’ literally gasped at the beauty” of the new theater, the Star-Teleg...
Show Row reached its full complement of three on April 17, 1930 when the Hollywood Theateropened in the Electric Building. The Electric Building/Hollywood Theater was another Jesse Jones project. In addition to the two theaters, Jones built the Medical Arts Building (1927) and The Fair. Like the Worth Hotel, the Electric Building was designed by Wy...
306 W. 7th Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102. Closed. Demolished. 1 screen. 2,484 seats. 6 people favorited this theater. Overview. Photos. Comments. View larger map →.
Jun 17, 2021 · D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation had its Fort Worth premiere at the Byers in 1915. By 1916 Fort Worth had several theaters—including the Majestic—presenting live performances ranging from opera to vaudeville, melodramas to musicals, and moving pictures. But popular taste was changing.
Photographs of Worth Theatre. Roger Ebert on Cinema Treasures: “The ultimate web site about movie theaters”
113 E. 7th Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102. Closed. Demolished. 1 screen. 1,468 seats. 4 people favorited this theater. Overview. Photos. Comments. View larger map →. Originally opened as Byers Opera House on September 21, 1908.
Oct 27, 2018 · The 1930-vintage Hollywood Theater, sealed away for decades like some old movie monster’s secret crypt, opened to daylight for the first time in two generations as a crowd relived past grandeur and imagined a future restoration.
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