Berry Theatre
3033 Hemphill Street,
Fort Worth,
TX
76110
3033 Hemphill Street,
Fort Worth,
TX
76110
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Previous Names: White Theatre, Teatro Berry
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This old relic was just off the corner of Hemphill Street and W. Berry Street on the south side of Fort Worth. The White Theatre was opened on April 3, 1940 with 1,000-seats. It was renamed Berry Theatre in 1961 and began screening Spanish language movies in 1962 when it was renamed Teatro Berry. It has a huge vertical sign spelling out BERRY. If some of these old theatres could only talk.
It was demolished on July 22, 2023.
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Does anyone knows if this theater is for sale?
Listings started showing up in 1941 as White and renamed Berry in 1961.
M.S. White was the original owner and named the theatre after himself launching on April 3, 1940. White had created the White Theatre and ran the Dal-Sec Theatre in Dallas beginning in 1934 before selling both to Interstate Theatre Corporation in 1936. The veteran film salesman’s career dated to the early 1910s and the Ft. Worth White Theatre was his return to exhibition in a new-build location which once housed an apartment complex. White retired from the exhibition business in 1951 selling off his two theaters.
On May 25, 1961, the theatre became the Berry Theatre and initially kept a policy of second-run Hollywood films and selected short subjects. The Berry would simultaneously be known as Teatro Berry in 1962 when it changed to a policy of showing Hispanic films. The Berry appears to have gone out of business in the home video era on February 21, 1988.
The theatre is currently on the market for $650K. More details and pics at https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/3033-Hemphill-St-Fort-Worth-TX/14033737/
1951 photo in below link.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1915395/?fbclid=IwAR3NM2-MI4wVc4N9qXpz_QRqEykYS1eBnjMDv8NgNh6Sn1oJna5GCVoWbww
2019 Fort Worth Business Press council report on the Berry Theatre.
https://fortworthbusiness.com/real-estate/council-report-new-life-for-berry-street-theater/?fbclid=IwAR0Mo1vq5mNiT-igVpJG3LaGgqPg374ScXircmSM-zQHk7d_ZQF24nye8fE
Demolition permits have been filed.
The Berry Theatre was demolished July 22, 2023.
How saddening!! Some structures just don’t stand a chance to survive. Neglected by the OWNER(s), and left abandoned to rot away to the point of no saving it.. Especially in the D/FW area it seems.. Life Goes On..
Wow! I passed by the former site of the Berry Theater today, and I was taken aback. The corner near where it used to be is now occupied by a large, fairly new and clean Super 7-Eleven. Interesting, since there was once a conventionally-sized 7-Eleven fifty years ago at the corner of Berry and Jennings, virtually on the new store’s site. One question I have is would anyone here know who was the architect for the White/Berry Theater?