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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

National Geographic was consulted so the stars on the ceiling would sit in astronomically correct positions - then a Viennese machine set clouds drifting across them. The Majestic Theatre, at 224 East Houston Street in downtown San Antonio, opened on 14 June 1929 as the finest atmospheric theatre John Eberson ever built - and the first fully air-conditioned theatre in Texas. The statistics stunned 1929: three million dollars, more than 3,700 seats - the largest theatre in the South and second l...

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