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hough parts of Texas were still considered the wild frontierin the early days of this century, city fathers made sure every town of any size offered some sort of cultural diversionfor families of hardworking farmers, ranchers and oil-field workers. When movies swept the country as the newest popular entertainment, downtown opera houses and vaudeville venues were quickly equipped with screens and projection equipment, inviting citizens to escape the hardscrabble life for an hour or two of silver screen fantasy in elegant surroundings.Unfortunately, the heyday of the ornate, downtown movie palace is long since passed. In the last two decades, movie entertainment has been defined by monster suburban multiplexes while single screen theatres either became art houses or fell into sad disrepair because they were no longer profitable. However, several of these grand old Texas palaces have been saved and given new life as performing arts venues, homes to community theatre companies or cabaret-style dinner-and-a-movie theatres.
Act I: The History of the Yucca Theater |
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The Yucca Resuscitated
The Summer Mummers
Revived Texas Theaters
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History of the Yucca
