Peoples Theatre

Cherilyn on August 16, 2024 at 4:40 pm

I hope y'all will reply to this even though the black people had to sit in the balcony they could still be with the whites…in an article about the Peoples Theatre in the Beaumont Enterprise the newspaper I read that the whites called the blacks chocolate drops and the blacks called the whites snowballs

rivest266 on November 28, 2020 at 11:42 am

Opened on June 13th, 1947. Grand opening ad posted. https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01110225224715029151606592519

Joe Vogel on March 9, 2009 at 11:31 pm

The first People’s Theatre was on a different site, across the street from its replacement. The second People’s Theatre was designed by architect Leon C. Kyburz, and Boxoffice Magazine’s issue of July 13, 1946, said that the construction permit had been issued on July 1.

The house was owned by the Jefferson Amusement Company, whose spokesman was quoted as saying “The People’s will be our first new theatre in Beaumont since we opened the Tivoli six years ago.” The Tivoli does not appear to be listed at Cinema Treasures yet, unless it’s a missing aka.