Texas Theatre
Main Street,
Pharr,
TX
78577
Main Street,
Pharr,
TX
78577
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The Pharr Theatre was opened in 1925. It was closed a silent movie theatre in 1929. Sound equippment was installed in 1931 and it reopened as the Texas Theatre.
By 2012 it had been in use as a community center, which continues into 2026.
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Bryan Krefft
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The Theater has been converted to a community hall. The floor has been leveled and any historic value has been removed. The city helped finance a local owner and this is what he did with it.
The first ad appeared in the Monitor on June 29th, 1931. Was this it’s opening date? Ad in photo section.
George Holdridge opened the Pharr Theatre in 1925 in downtown Pharr. The venue scuffled in the transition to sound. In 1930, the town offered a year of free rent if the accepting operator would reopen the dormant theater with sound. Traxiana Jack took that challenge and she wired it for sound using X-Cell audio equipment in a complete refresh of the theatre. It re-emerged under her watch in 1931 as the Texas Theatre. Harry N. Britten took on the Texas Theatre and operated Teatro Espana in Pharr. He and his partner, R.O. Brewer, sold off the Texas in 1947 to M. Linn and William A Smith of Texas Theatres, Inc.