Fox Theater

107 S. Lynch Street,
Plain Dealing, LA 71064

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SethG
SethG on May 4, 2022 at 2:10 pm

Address is wrong. Looks like it’s 107 S Lynch. The 1921 map shows a single story general store in what looks like the same location. That may have been converted to the theater.

dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on June 29, 2020 at 7:08 am

The New Fox Theatre launched on November 2, 1935 in downtown Plain Dealing. It was a converted retail space in the R.C. Purcell Building opening on a 20 year-lease. It replaced the Fox Tent Theatre used in the warm weather months when the city’s Electric Theatre closed. Cecil Kelly and J.M. Graham opened the venue and had a guest in “the Lonesome Cowboy” Roy McDaniel with an in-person visit in the theater’s first full weekend of operation.

The long-running venue renewed its lease and converted to widescreen. It appears to have concluded cinematic operations on August 18, 1969 with a 30th-anniversary screening of “Gone with the Wind.” It became a live music venue the following year closing in 1971. The City of Plain Dealing purchased the building 1976.