Marquee of the Texas Theatre, which closed in 1983 in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2014.

On Thanksgiving Day, 1929, San Angelo welcomed a theater that presented everything from Broadway musicals to first-run movies. The first show was The Hollywood Revue, and it was first seen by the general public at 9:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The theater's equipment made San Angelo one of the first cities in the nation to play motion pictures. Inside, stars twinkled overhead while clouds floated across the ceiling, the designer's effort to recreate the night sky.

Patronage declined severely in the 1970s due to a shortage of parking, the increasing use of television for home entertainment ,and a slowdown of movie production. The Texas Theatre closed in September 1983. Photo by Carol Highsmith.