Ritz Theatre
307 W. Pecan Street,
Celina,
TX
75009
307 W. Pecan Street,
Celina,
TX
75009
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The Ritz Theatre was opened on September 2, 1932 with Richard Arlen in Sky Bride". It was destroyed by fire on January 29, 1946.
The former Queen Theatre in town which had opened by 1922 and closed in 1932 was chosen to be a replacement Ritz Theatre. (It has its own page on Cinema treasures)
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The Queen Theatre was mentioned in the February 2, 1922 issue of The Celina Record. A 1937 article about the theater’s operators, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McClure and their son Richard, said that the Queen had been in the last building on the street running along the north side of the square. The article did not specify which of the two storefronts in that building housed the theater, but it would have been at either 301 or 303 West Pecan Street. When the first Ritz Theatre burned in 1946, the new Ritz was built in the former Queen building, but being larger it occupied both storefronts.
The first Ritz was down the block from the Queen’s location, probably at either 307 or 309 Pecan. The 1937 article said that the McClures had been in the theater business at Celina for most of the previous twenty years, and that their original theater (no name was given) had been on the south side of the square. It didn’t say how long that house had remained in operation, but did note that prior to the McClures arrival movies had been shown in the town’s old opera house, which had been upstairs over the old Post Office.