Too bad that that picture was not taken while the Gateway was still operating. The Art Deco styling was trendy and the stadium seating design was decades ahead of time.A beautiful 600-seat theatre in a fast-growing, affluent neighborhood of new chain stores and Fort Worth’s first East Side shopping centers. I worked there from 1952 to 1956; then moved to asst. mgr at the downtown Palace and Worth Theatres.The people who ran Interstate were the VERY best:Frank Watherford as city manager;Ray Jones and R.L. Woodall at the Worth were top professionals and hired only the best people. Some of today’s big new Regal Theatres remind me of The Worth in 1955. I moved into radio and TV management after college but still remember Interstate and the Gateway with great fondness! Jerry Condra
Too bad that that picture was not taken while the Gateway was still operating. The Art Deco styling was trendy and the stadium seating design was decades ahead of time.A beautiful 600-seat theatre in a fast-growing, affluent neighborhood of new chain stores and Fort Worth’s first East Side shopping centers. I worked there from 1952 to 1956; then moved to asst. mgr at the downtown Palace and Worth Theatres.The people who ran Interstate were the VERY best:Frank Watherford as city manager;Ray Jones and R.L. Woodall at the Worth were top professionals and hired only the best people. Some of today’s big new Regal Theatres remind me of The Worth in 1955. I moved into radio and TV management after college but still remember Interstate and the Gateway with great fondness! Jerry Condra