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Smile Theater


2002 Photo from the Scott Neff collection.
Allen Ave & Second St
Monahans TX

Closed
Record #21515  
 Opened: September 16, 1947
 Closed: Yes (date unknown)
 Current Use:
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Current Organ: none
 Also Known As: Texan, Jerry Lewis
 Previously operated by: Theatre Enterprises, Frontier Theatres, Network Cinema Corporation

Information for this tour was contributed by Lisa Barr.

Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, this was a Jerry Lewis theater. The chain folded and a local businessman, Charles Wade, bought it. He changed the name to the SMILE Theater because that was the only thing he could use with the letters LEWIS (he turned the W upside down.)

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April 2002 photos from the Scott Neff collection.


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Last featured 3/8/2005. Last edited 6/11/2022.


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