Rex Theater

I saw very few movies at the Rex, but in 1958, I was eight, and a friend and I went to see “From the Earth to the Moon”. The theater was on the corner of Kings Highway and Highland Avenue. During the movie, I heard an ambulance with its siren on going down Kings Highway, headed for the Confederate Memorial hospital about two miles down Kings Highway. When we got home, I found out that my best friend, who lived about eight houses from mine, was accidentally shot to death as one of his older brothers struggled to get a loaded .22 rifle from their youngest brother who was about four. My friend was nine. That was the last time I saw a movie at the Rex. As has been stated above, it later became a location of Don’s Seafood, which was home-based in Lafayette, La. Patronized for many years by a much older crowd, it eventually succumbed to a lack of customers and closed. Recently, a move to make it a funeral home was attempted, but due to protest by area residents, the venture was abandoned.

From 2010 an image of the Rex Theater building in Shreveport.