King Theater

118 S. Kent Street,
Gorman, TX 76454

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Functions: Community Center

Previous Names: Ritz Theater, New Deal Theater

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King Theater ... Gorman Texas

Opened as the Ritz Theatre on July 2, 1929. It was renamed New Deal Theater in 1934, named for the "New Deal" program instituted by Franklin D Roosevelt in 1933.

It was renamed King Theater in 1937. The building has survived as of 2009 and is being used as the Gorman community center.

Contributed by Billy Smith / Billy Holcomb / Don Lewis

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dorstar
dorstar on November 13, 2022 at 1:01 pm

According to Hubert Craddock in an interview in 1957, H.L. Capers, Frank Gray, and Hubert Craddock leased an existing theatre in 1934 and renamed the theatre, “The New Deal”. At that time, Franklin D. Roosevelt had just been elected and everyone was talking about “the New Deal”, so these three men decided to change the name of an existing theatre at this location to “The New Deal”. In 1937, Hubert Craddock says that H.L. Capers renamed the theatre for the last time “The King”.

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