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Lewisville, Texas Back In The Day The NEW PAGE for "Lewisville, Texas Back In The Day" - May 9, 2011.

HISTORY, PHOTOS & MEMORIES
OF SMALL TOWN LEWISVILLE
including FLOWER MOUND, LAKE DALLAS & HIGHLAND VILLAGE

03/08/2025

Traces of Texas reader Allison Riepe was researching her hometown of Lewisville, Texas when she came across this 1897 photo of Main Street in that fine North Texas town. Allison's great great grandfather, Morrison Smith, was a tailor in Lewisville and also a volunteer firefighter. He left behind some detailed descriptions of firefighting back in those days and Allison is going to transcribe one and send it in. I just read that the population of Lewisville is more than 111,000 people, which astonishes me: the city added 15 thousand residents from 2010-2020. Lewisville got its start in the 1840s. Bonus points on the next pop quiz if you remember that it was originally named Holford's Prairie.

Thank you, Allison. I love it.

The City of Lewisville has more than 400 print and digital photos in the Lewisville Collection, dating from as early as ...
12/07/2025

The City of Lewisville has more than 400 print and digital photos in the Lewisville Collection, dating from as early as the 1870s.

14/05/2025
https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/61870Andy Sisk, former sales agent for Paramount Pictures and the Wallace Theatre C...
03/02/2025

https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/61870
Andy Sisk, former sales agent for Paramount Pictures and the Wallace Theatre Circuit, bought the aging Liberty Theatre in 1947. He immediately invested in a property across Main Street to build the new Andy Theatre. Post-War construction materials delayed the project for many years.

The origins of the Andy Theatre named by Sisk date back to 1951 to 1953 where he likely operated from the renamed Liberty Theatre. He had an opening in September of 1953 for the Andy Theatre but the formal opening of the new-build 191 W. Main Street location was not until April 8, 1955. Almost ten years later, the theatre was destroyed by fire on February 4, 1965.

A bank replaced the former theatre location while Lewisville would get both a drive-in and a two-screen Jerry Lewis Cinema in the early-1970’s to return movie-going in the growing city.

13/12/2024
Early Lewisville view, north from Main Street on Poydras Street.
03/06/2024

Early Lewisville view, north from Main Street on Poydras Street.

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