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  • <p>The Plaza attractor during the COVID-19 pandemic sported many memorably appropriate movie quotations - here’s one from March of 2020 when the theatre and others around the globe were closed down – from its Facebook site.</p>
  • <p>I was C.O.O. for MANN THEATRE the theater did very well at box-office, large lobby and concessions, manager was Jim McCLAGE the division manager out of the UT. office John Teller, was a first run at the time</p>
  • <p>With One-Hour Programs of News and Shorts (June, 1949)</p>
  • <p>in October 18, 1967, 55 Years Ago When Walt Disney’s Original Animated Musical Classic “The Jungle Book” at Gruman’s Chinese Theatre (A.K.A TCL Chinese Theatre). 55 Years Later It’s Still Swinging with Joy.</p>
  • <p>1947</p>
  • <p>July 10, 1947 photo credit Jones Theaters Inc Collection 21565.17, courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society.</p>
  • <p>1947 photo courtesy of the I Grew-Up In Sherman Texas Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>World premiere engagement opened September 27th, 1947</p>
  • <p>World premiere engagement opened December 21st, 1946</p>
  • <p>“It’s a Wonderful Life” premiered at the Globe Theater in New York City, 1946. Photo copyright RKO, Courtesy Photofest.</p> <p>https://www.life.com/arts-entertainment/its-a-wonderful-life-tribute-to-a-masterpiece/</p>
  • <p>1979 photo courtesy of Stacie Inkel.</p>
  • <p>October 2007</p>
  • <p>October 2007</p>
  • <p>1966</p>
  • <p>1954</p>
  • <p>1960’s</p>
  • <p>10-17-84</p>
  • <p>lockdown 2020</p>
  • <p>lockdown 2020</p>
  • <p>Possibly the most famous of the pictures of the Texas Theater was this snapshot taken just after the apprehension of Lee Harvey Oswald who had sneaked into the Texas Theatre and arrested at 1:51p on November 22, 1963 charged with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Picture became part of the Warren Commission file, Exhibit C.</p>
  • <p>Photo of Oswald’s arrest at the Texas Theatre via the Decaying Hollywood Mansions Facebook page.</p>