Marquee of the Texas Theatre, which closed in 1983 in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas. On Thanksgiving Day, 1929, San Angelo welcomed a theater that presented everything from Broadway musicals to first-run movies. The first show was "The Hollywood Revue,� and it was first seen by the general public at 9:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The theater's equipment made San Angelo one of the first cities in the nation to play motion pictures. Inside, stars twinkled overhead while clouds floated across the ceiling, the designer's effort to recreate the night sky. In the 1940s, the Texas Theatre was "the" spot for entertainment for servicemen stationed at Goodfellow Field, Concho Field, and San Angelo Army Airfield. Owned by John D. Jones, the theater played a central role in raising money for the war effort. From 1948 through 1950, the theater underwent minor remodeling, resulting in a Texas motif facade and the neon marquee. Patronage declined severely in the 1970s due to ashortage of parking, the increasing use of television for home entertainment ,and a slowdown of movie productionThe Texas Theatre closed in September 1983. There were plans to reopen the theater as a "dollar house," showing second-run movies, but the plans were never realized. In 1998 the theater was sold to Lee Pfluger and Kenneth Gunter, who intended to protect the historic building, forestall the possibility that it might be bought by someone who might damage its historical character, and find a suitable person to develop the property, but the theater did not reopen.

Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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