Looking Back at The Palace Theatre - The Bend Magazine

Looking Back at The Palace Theatre - The Bend Magazine

Discussions of downtown Corpus Christi’s building boom in the 1920s usually focus on the industry brought to town with the opening of the port, but with those employees came the need for leisure. One of the favorite pastimes as the population boomed from 10,522 in 1920 to 108,287 by 1950 was a trip to the movies. The R&R theater company opened Texas’s fourth largest movie theatre, the Palace, in 1926. The theater’s original décor included hand-p…