Walnut Theaters
3310 W. Walnut Street,
Garland,
TX
75042
3310 W. Walnut Street,
Garland,
TX
75042
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The Walnut Theatres was opened March 1, 1974. It was closed November 19, 1996, but reopened under new management in May 1997. It closed in 2014 and became a banquet hall.
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This has been a second-run theater throughout most of my life. Whenever there was a school field trip to see a film, we would typically go here or the Medallion theater. I’m glad it’s still running. So very few of the pre-megaplex theaters are.
That Location Has A Happy Life In 97. I Haven’t Seen An Operated Independent Theater Operation In The Dallas-Fort Worth Area, Other Than One In Denton.
Some time between June 2012 and May 2016, this appears to have stopped business as a theatre. It’s showing, per googlemaps, as a place called Bezzela Event… Randy A Carlisle Historical Photography / RAC Photography
The theater has officially closed after 10 years of posting showtimes but not really showing the films. I’ve scheduled “Tears” for 4:30, 7 and 9:30 and “Heartbreak” for a 2p matinee (only). Current use: full-time event center
Dallas, I have a question to ask you. How many classic movie theaters (downtown theaters and classic shoeboxes) are still running movies in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex to this very day? I know that there’s not a lot left, but its not just because on how the Dallas-Fort Worth area is under a growth war.
The Inwood (Tri-plexed) and the Texas Theatre (duplexed) are the classic venues that still have current movies as their daily bread and butter. There are other 50-plus year old venues in the area dabbling with repertory (Grapevine’s Palace or the Plaza in Garland among many others) for nostalgic reasons.
The only shoebox (pre-1994 twin, tri, quad or multiplex) in almost original condition is America Cinemas Fort Worth. Every other multiplex still showing film (AMC Green Oaks, GCC Central Park 8, Denton’s ABC Cinema, AMC Hulen, UA Hulen) has been remodeled to the point of not really seeing the original design intent of sterile shoe-boxedness.
Moving to the 1990s era, a lot of the AMC megaplexes have a high percentage of auditoriums unchanged (non recliner audis). But the answer to the question - if understood correctly - not a whole lot of authentic era movie houses pre-megaplexes showing contemporary cinema in their original design form factors. The tides have long turned against feature-starved movies-only venues of the previous cinematic exhibition eras.
Very interesting! Thanks!
Don’t know if this theatre is open, the phone line dosen’t work and can’t locate a website for this theatre.
It also appears that the Walnut Theaters no longer shows movies, meaning that it most likely closed around 2014. It reopened later that same year as the banquet hall under the name Belleza Event but retaining the Walnut Theaters stuff.
Several photos confirmed that both auditoriums show all of its seats being removed and were replaced with dinner tables and chairs in one screen, and a dance floor in the other screen, but both screens are still there. The building was still in fair shape as of 2026, but the signage appears to be faded.
As noted above, it is definitely closed as a theatre - in 2014 - though with an impressive run of showtimes posted from 2015 to 2025 (never showing any of those films).