When it was the Novelty theater in the 40’s and 50’s I attended as a child and teen, you saw 2 movies, usually westerns and saw a news reel and cartoons for 15 cents and a tall bag of popcorn was 10 cents and if you wanted to you could stay and watch it again. The well off went up Douglas West a block to where the more wealthy went, a kid had to pay 35 cents I think, might be wrong on that. If you went East there was the State Theater and the Victory Theater. I went to all, but often to the Corral or as I remember, the Novelty.
When the Victory Theater was in its hay day, it was a clean and well kept up place! But as the years went on past 1963 it and several other land marks started to fade and disappeared. Another wonderful place down town was the great Fairland Café, it was a great Chinese restaurant that stayed open 24 hours a day on Broadway, and half a block South of Douglas St.
When it was the Novelty theater in the 40’s and 50’s I attended as a child and teen, you saw 2 movies, usually westerns and saw a news reel and cartoons for 15 cents and a tall bag of popcorn was 10 cents and if you wanted to you could stay and watch it again. The well off went up Douglas West a block to where the more wealthy went, a kid had to pay 35 cents I think, might be wrong on that. If you went East there was the State Theater and the Victory Theater. I went to all, but often to the Corral or as I remember, the Novelty.