English: Title: The long-closed (as of 2014) Texas Theatre in McGregor, Texas

Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

Notes: Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; The building dates to 1912, when it opened as an opera house, of a western sort. Cowboy stars occasionally performed there, sometimes on horseback. By the time the building received its present name in 1936, movies had begun to be shown there. At that time, the building exterior was changed again to gain office space and a roomier lobby. New seats were installed downstairs, but a portion of the balcony retained the 1912 ornate iron standards and wooden seats. With the advent of television, the theatrer gradually became a weekend operation. On July 12, 1975 to kick off McGregor's (early) celebration of the nation's bicentennial year, owner Henry Smith ran a nostalgic 10-cent movie and sold 10-cent popcorn and soda water. In 1982, lacking sufficient customers to stay open, Smith closed the doors on the old theater.; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.