Rex Theatre

18 N. Palafox Street,
Pensacola, FL 32502

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Brandon Barkley
Brandon Barkley on February 22, 2023 at 7:52 pm

The space is rented out to a convention I am going to this weekend. I am going to try to poke around and determine if the movies being shown are DCP. I’ll try to report back.

reed4
reed4 on July 3, 2020 at 10:01 pm

Status should be changed to open. The restoration is beautiful. Generation Church meets here, but the building was restored as a theatre used by a church. Pensacola Cinema Art exhibits movies about once a month.

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on March 26, 2018 at 11:45 am

1947 photo added credit UWF Library. Black glossy facade on the storefronts to the left was called Vitrolite.

rivest266
rivest266 on December 2, 2017 at 12:49 pm

Opened on November 21st, 1937.

Found on Newspapers.com

rivest266
rivest266 on March 19, 2017 at 9:41 am

This reopened as Cinema ‘n’ Drafthouse on July 23rd, 1982.

Bren
Bren on April 19, 2015 at 5:24 pm

The theater recently underwent an extensive restoration and I am happy to say it has now reopened as of April 17, 2015. Great to see yet another part of downtown Pensacola be brought back to life.

tntim
tntim on February 20, 2015 at 5:28 pm

Here is an update on the renovation of the Rex Theatre by the Harvest Church. Link

dickneeds111
dickneeds111 on June 9, 2012 at 6:17 am

Can somebody please put up some information about the Pen and Florida theatres in Pensacola. Being stationed there in 1959-60, 1964-1965 and then again in the 80’s I visited these theatres many times besides the Saenger.

Don Lewis
Don Lewis on February 14, 2011 at 10:33 am

From 2011 a photo of the Rex Theatre in Pensacola.

AndyCallahanMajorMajor
AndyCallahanMajorMajor on October 4, 2010 at 1:50 pm

Here are my pictures from September 2010.

Don Lewis
Don Lewis on July 31, 2010 at 12:41 am

From the late 1940s a postcard view of downtown Pensacola along with the Rex Theatre.

Don Lewis
Don Lewis on July 14, 2008 at 8:41 pm

A 1986 view of the Rex Theater in Pensacola here and here. Enlarged views here and here.

joezoo
joezoo on May 30, 2007 at 9:19 am

There’s some fairly detailed information here:
http://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Rex_Theatre