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Majestic Theatre

1925 Elm St, Dallas, TX

The last survivor of Dallas's Theater Row went dark in 1973 after Live and Let Die, then came back as a performing arts center.

📅 1921–1973🏛️ TheaterRepurposed
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The story

The Majestic opened on April 11, 1921, with 2,800 seats. John Eberson designed it for Karl Hoblitzelle's Interstate Amusement Company, a chain of vaudeville houses. It replaced an earlier Majestic that burned in December 1917. Acts from Houdini to Mae West and Bob Hope played there, and films were added in 1922. In 1932 it went movies-only.

The theater closed on July 16, 1973, after the last showing of Live and Let Die. The Hoblitzelle Foundation transferred it to the City of Dallas in January 1976, and it was restored as a performing arts center. Seating dropped from 2,400 to 1,570. It reached the National Register in 1977 and reopened on January 28, 1983. It is the last remnant of Theater Row, the entertainment district on Elm Street. The playwright Horton Foote worked there as an usher in 1932 and 1933.

What's There Now

The City of Dallas owns it and runs it as a performing arts venue.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The page calls it the 'man's house' while the nearby Palace was the 'ladies' house'.
It appeared in the 1974 film Phantom of the Paradise.
Horton Foote was an usher there in 1932-33.

Nearby history

Joske's

1900 Elm St · 126 m away
The store became Joske's in 1979 and closed soon after Dillard's bought the chain in 1987.

Old Dallas Central Library

1954 Commerce St · 228 m away
A George Dahl library that replaced the 1901 Carnegie building and later became the Dallas Morning News headquarters.

Dallas Grand Hotel

1914 Commerce St · 238 m away
Name used after Hilton sold the hotel to Hong Kong investors in 1988; closed in 2001.

Neiman Marcus Downtown Flagship

1618 Main St · 318 m away
Neiman Marcus rebuilt here after a fire burned its Elm Street store, and stayed 112 years until the flagship closed on S

Palace Theatre

1625 Elm St · 330 m away
The third Palace on Elm Street opened in 1921, showed Anthony Quinn's Flap last, and was demolished 11 days after closin

Wilson Building

1621 Main St · 353 m away
A cattle fortune built Dallas's tallest building of 1904 to 1909, later home to a department store, a variety store and

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Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_Theatre_(Dallas)