The 1939 Crim Theater in Kilgore, Texas, once the flagship of a chain of movie theaters, was abandoned in the 1950s during the ascendancy of television and devolved into a glorified storage facility. Preservationists saved the building, and it has since been used for special events, including Hallow

The long-closed (as of 2014) Texas Theatre in McGregor, Texas Physical description:. Notes: Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; The building dates to 1912, when

The Edna movie theater the town of the same name in Jackson County in southeastern Texas Physical description:. Notes: Opened in 1949, the theater is named after a daughter of Count Joseph Telfener, an Italian entrepreneur who was building a railroad from Ros

The Tower Theatre in Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, Texas Physical description:. Notes: Long shuttered, the theater was remodeled and reopened about 2010. The theater was built in the late 1930s and owned by Audrey Cox, whose brother, W.E. Cox, ran theate

The distressed Paramount Theatre in Marshall, Texas Physical description:. Notes: Delayed and over budget, the Paramount Theatre in Marshall, Texas opened on March 31, 1930. The opening was the first event in what the city of Marshall dubbed "Program of Progr

This old vaudeville house, built in the 1930s in Alpine, Texas, was purchased by Indian immigrant Avanish Rangra, a chemistry professor at Sul Ross State University locally, and his wife, Anju, in the 1970s. In 2002 their son, Amit, told a local newspaper, "We're not exactly a multiplex as much as a

The Texas Theater in Waxahachie, Texas, a Dallas suburb Physical description:. Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Constructed in 1895 as the Dixie vaudeville theater, it was converted to a movie theater in 192

The old company-town movie theater in the "ghost town," some of which is still occupied and some of which consists of ruins of the Chisos quicksilver-mining company which operated from 1905 into the early 1940s, and the residences of those who worked there. Terlingua, Texas Physical description: 1 p

The long-empty (as of 2014) Forest Theatre, once a community institution in a low-income neighborhood of Dallas, Texas The Forest Theatre opened in 1947, with 1,400 seats Physical description:. Notes: Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).