Pardon the pun, but that's Crim-inal. I'd donate if I had money...

Thats really a bloody shame...
I really love those old cinemas, They died out overhere too due to the multiplex cinemas. There are just two or three of such cinemas left in Frankfurt, which is after all a large city.

Oh man, that blows. Beautiful outside, though....

What they ought to do is set up a Paypal account and let people flip them a couple of bucks. I'd do it, and if enough other people did it... you get the idea.

They predict it would cost 1.5-2 million dollars to renovate it into a community theater. But in this economy who knows if it will ever get done. At least it doesn't look like a dump anymore. And I've also heard they've been trying to convince the state government to make the theater a landmark.

That sucks, it would have done so good for premiering exploitation films.

Yeah I went to Kilgore High school, grew up there and everything. I can't remember how many times I passed by that place wondering what was going to become of it. Old Downtown Kilgore has a lot of history. I mean the oil from the ground in that area where you were taking that picture helped clobber Germany in WWII. Downtown Kilgore is a symbol of the oil boom and an icon of our country's energy history, not to mention a still in-tact portrait of old, small town America. It needs to be preserved as much as possible. The fact that the theater is still at least there and not going to fall into a pile of rubble is good to hear. I'll actually leave Dallas and be over in that area tomorrow. My mother (who still lives out there) broke her arm yesterday and I'm going to go check on her. It'll be nice to see home again =)

Nice to meet another fur from Kilgore, I think you're only the second. My parents moved here in 1988, and I've been living with them since 2000.

That really looks great, it's a shame it isn't functional inside. There is a really nice looking old theatre in Eastland, TX, the Majestic, but they only show movies weekends and so we didn't get to see the show the time we stayed there. The Paramount in Abilene is also real nice.
In Midland they are preparing to get another one of the old theatres going (the Ritz) as a communty theatre/independent film theatre and they plan to restore the facade to the original.