Ritz Theatre
201 E. Kaufman Street,
Rockwall,
TX
75087
201 E. Kaufman Street,
Rockwall,
TX
75087
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Studying the photos on the site robboehm mentioned I have concluded that the Ritz Theatre was on the northeast corner of Kaufman Street and San Jacinto Street, diagonally across the intersection from the square. It is now the location of a modern bank building with the address 201 E. Kaufman Street.
This web page says that the Ritz Theatre was opened on the north side of the town square in 1923 and operated for 35 years. The building has since been demolished. Unfortunately there’s no photo of the Ritz, though the page has photos of several other small town Texas theaters.
I did a Google search of “Rockwall: Historical Photos-City of Rockwell.” There is a crawl on the home page including a burred photo of the Ritz. Since it was on the move I couldn’t capture it. Couldn’t find that image anywhere else.
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Thank you for your question. There’s a picture of the theater in Sheri Stodghill Fowler’s book Rockwall: Images of America on pg 91.
According to Fowler, a movie theater was located at the northeast corner of Kaufman and San Jacinto streets in downtown Rockwall for almost 40 years. The theater, named the Ritz, ran serials and first-run movies.
Fowler, Sheri Stodghill. Rockwall: Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. 2009.