Angelo Civic Theater
1936 Sherwood Way,
San Angelo,
TX
76901
1936 Sherwood Way,
San Angelo,
TX
76901
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Angelo Civic Theatre (Official)
Additional Info
Previously operated by: Robb & Rowley-United Inc., Rowley United Theatres Inc.
Architects: Leonard R. Mauldin
Functions: Playhouse
Styles: Streamline Moderne
Previous Names: Parkway Theatre and Community Center
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
325.949.4400
Manager:
325.949.4400
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The Parkway Theatre and Community Center was opened on September 2, 1949 with Pat O'Brien in “The Boy with Green Hair”. It was operated by Robb & Rowley-United Inc. Soon to be taken over by Rowley United Theatres Inc. This freakish looking ex-cinema is now home to San Angelo’s community dramatists. They took over the former Parkway Theatre in 1980 and remodeled it in 1981.
The façade is long and low, with a tower on the right hand side. The marquee is nothing special, but the tower is bizarre. It is a stubby trapezoid with two poles mounted on the front face. Each pole is surmounted by a spiked metal ball with a very tall spike on top, and braced to the roof by four arched metal sheets.
The playhouse has painted the area over the marquee with a mural of 17th century people in a garden that looks just like the patterned wallpaper that was so popular when I was little.
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Seth Gaines
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This theater was built in 1950 as the Parkway. I filled that information out, but not all of the data displays in the entry.
Additional Info:
The Architect was Leonard R. Mauldin for R&R Theaters.
It was remodelled approximately 20 years ago when the Angelo Civic Theatre organization converted the movie house into a 275 seat live performance venue.
From 1961 a movie ad for for the Parkway Theater in San Angelo.
The mural is still missing in 2012.
Hello. I know this is probably a longshot asking this, but does anyone have any record of past managers who worked at the movies theatre. I am trying to locate the theatre my grandfather, Leonard Vittitow, managed years ago. He just recently passed at the age of 91. I found an article that said he was a manager of Angelus Theatre. I wasn’t sure if that was a typo or not. Thank you!
Hello TNiles. According to CinemaTour there was an Angelus Theatre in San Angelo at 30 West Beauregard Street. The building has since been demolished.
The Parkway opened on September 2nd, 1949. Grand opening ad posted.