Roxy Theatre
22 E. Concho Street,
San Angelo,
TX
76901
22 E. Concho Street,
San Angelo,
TX
76901
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The Roxy Theatre opened on August 28, 1942, featuring "B" movies, it closed in 1965.
It reopened as a XXX adult theatre in 1970 and was closed in 1973 and destroyed by a suspicious fire.
Contributed by
Glen Carr / Billy Smith / Don Lewis
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From 1960 a movie ad from the Roxy Theatre in San Angelo.
The Roxy opened on August 28th, 1942
This became an adult cinema in 1970 and closed in 1973.
I was stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base from January to April 1969. I went to the Roxy once with some of my Army buddies that were getting trained to be interpreter-translators or voice intercept operators. They did have X-Rated movies at that time, along with movies with other ratings. The time I went, the two movies were “Prudence and the Pill” (David Niven was in that one) and the X-Rated “The Bushwhacker” (I think that was the title). There were two old ladies behind the ticket window that looked at us with a mix of pity and disgust.
I was manager of the Roxy in San angelo in 1972 and 1973. There were no old ladies working there. The old man who owned the place for decades said he was “compelled” to sell it to a group from Memphis, if you get my drift. I worked for those guys in 1973 until soon after the VP of the company, involved with “negoiations” with the Projectionst Union in San Antonio was arrested by the FBI with a trunk full of explosives and guns. Such things were frowned upon in those days. There were no old ladies working there – quite the contrary – a couple of which I miss a lot. I closed the threatre in 1973 on instructions from the company after a small fire in a broom closet, for purely economic reasons. My assistant manager was a tech sgt at GAFB.