Booker-T Theater
2601 Market Street,
Galveston,
TX
77550
2601 Market Street,
Galveston,
TX
77550
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- Martini opened the 1,000-seat Booker-T Theater on March 2, 1948, and the Galveston Daily News noted that it was “Believed to be the finest movie theater for Negroes in Texas".
The Booker-T Theater closed on September 2, 1968, with “The Tami Show” and “The TNT Show", which featured about every popular musician from the mid-1960’s.
In December of 1972 notices from a wrecking company was published in the Daily News offering for sale chairs, neon lights, the air conditioner and iron beams.
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Re-named the “Gemini 9” Theater on Friday May 20, 1966, apparently in coordination with the originally planned launch of the Gemini IX-A spacecraft on Tuesday, May 17 manned by astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan (the launch however had been delayed until June 3rd). Other than merely stating “Formerly Booker T”, the commemorative triple-feature included Christopher Lee in RASPUTIN–THE MAD MONK, A RAGE TO LIVE with Suzanne Pleshette (listed as a comedy), and Noel Willman & Jennifer Daniel in THE REPTILE (advertised as “REPTILES”). [Galveston Daily News, pp. 2]