18 Matching Results

Search Results

[Plaza Theatre]

Description: Photograph of an exterior view of a building identified as Plaza Theatre. Several cars are parked in front of the building. Text on the side of another building says "Yakie Supply Co. Auto Parts and Accessories[,] Phone 144."
Date: 1939
Creator: Everett, James
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Pearce Movie Theater]

Description: Photograph of an exterior view of Pearce Movie Theater, at 500 Procter Street. There is an archway above the front doors, and several signs and movie posters are set out under it. A ticket booth is in the center of the two sets of doors.
Date: unknown
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Elks Theatre]

Description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Elks Theatre building at 400 Fourth Street, near Austin Avenue. Several movie posters are set up under an awning in the front. It is owned and operated by the Elks Club.
Date: 1920
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Proposed Plaza Theatre]

Description: Photograph of an artist's rending of the proposed Plaza Theatre, which became Elks Theatre. At the top of the front and side of the building, there are busts of elk's heads. A balcony on the front has text on it that says "19 Plaza Theatre 10." Text at the top-left of the photograph says "Plaza Theatre, Cor. Austin Ave. and 4th St. Port Arthur, Texas."
Date: 1910
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Boy Scouts at Strand Theater]

Description: Photograph of boy scouts in a group outside the Strand Theater in Port Arthur, TX. According to the marquee behind the boys, the movie playing is "One Sunday Afternoon." All the boys are dressed in boy scout uniforms. Several leaders are in the picture with them.
Date: unknown
Creator: Everett, James
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Downtown Procter Street]

Description: Photograph of the Port Arthur interurban train in the middle of the downtown shopping district. Many different types of businesses are along the sides of the Procter Street. Pedestrian shoppers are all around, going into various businesses. Vehicles are parked in all the parking spaces along the street. A single stoplight on a pole stands in the middle of the intersection.
Date: unknown
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Crowd in front of the StrandTheater]

Description: Photograph of a crowd of people outside the front doors of the Strand Theatre in the 500 block of Procter. The marquee says "John Barrymore-Dolores Costello and George O'Hara in The Screen Classic 'The Sea Beast.'" In the foreground, there is a row of cars.
Date: 1926
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Snow in Downtown Beaumont]

Description: Photograph of snow falling in downtown Beaumont. Several businesses are visible, including the Jefferson Theater. Several cars are parked along the street and in a parking lot on the right side of the frame. Tire marks run through thin layers of ice and snow on the road.
Date: January 1973
Creator: Lewis, David P.
Partner: Lamar University
Back to Top of Screen