Courtesy Garland Theater
The historic cinema's marquee displayed this message for most of the past year and a half while closed.
W
hen staff at the Garland Theater were updating the venue's iconic marquee at the corner of Garland and Monroe earlier this week, passing drivers enthusiastically reacted to the sight, a sure sign of its reopening.
"People were driving by and cheering and honking," says the theater's manager, Jasmine Barnes. "It hadn't been touched all this last year. I got a little teary eyed."
After being completely closed since March 2020, about 16 months, the 1945-built, single-screen discount movie theater is ready to welcome back patrons this Friday, July 23.