Capitol Theatre
1101 E. Levee Street,
Brownsville,
TX
78520
1101 E. Levee Street,
Brownsville,
TX
78520
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Previously operated by: Paramount Pictures Inc., Trans-Texas Theatres
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The Capitol Theatre was opened February 14, 1928 with William Boyd in “Two Arabian Knights”. By 1941 it was operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary Hoblitzelle & O'Donnell. It was closed April 30, 1966.
There was talk in recent years about it reopening, but in 2015, it sits boarded up.
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Gregg Anderson
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I don’t believe the theatre ever opened. There is no webpage that I can find anywhere- the link above for the BSPA’s restoration page no longer exists. At the Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts page (http://artsinbrownsville.org/bpaa.html) they make no mention of the Capitol – instead they are focusing on renovating another historic building as their new academy. The Google Street View (2014) shows the building still boarded up.
Grand opening ad
Found on Newspaperarchive.com