Village Theatre
2329 34th Street,
Lubbock,
TX
79411
2329 34th Street,
Lubbock,
TX
79411
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Functions: Gymnasium
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News About This Theater
- Mar 2, 2010 — Happy 45th, "The Sound Of Music"
- Nov 18, 2009 — Happy 50th, "Ben-Hur"
The Village Theatre opened February 11, 1955. This was a small theatre in a plain row of small shops. It was great for showing first run films (I saw “A Hard Day’s Night” there and all the surf movies in the 1960’s). I met Jay Silverheels there. It closed in 1980.
After it’s days as a theatre it became a batting cage.
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Still a batting cage. Dj’s Sports.
To view a 1964 snapshot of the cute, streamline Village Cinema type in word “village”, then search,
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Here is a November 1971 ad for “Werewolves on Wheels” in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. It was a biker horror film, I guess.
http://tinyurl.com/ygtf5cc
I was the projectionist at the Village in 1971. I remember it well and believe I could still work the projectors after all this time.
A t-shirt company is at the Village location now. I bought some custom-made shirts there around 2002 and got to see the old auditorium. I was amazed at how small it was—I remembered it as so much bigger. But it had seats and a screen then, too. It was once a first-run theater showing roadshow films like “South Pacific,” “My Fair Lady” (for almost a year), and I think it even had “The Sound of Music” for an eternity! That tiny parking lot was NO fun though!
Grand opening ad in photo section
Buddy Holly appearance from 1957 in photos