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Amarillo's Olympic Theater 1919 | ||||||
Life in Potter County Tx 1850 to 1950 | ||||||
![]() The Olympic (formerly the Grand Opera House) was located on the NE corner of 7th and Polk Streets across the street from the Piggly Wiggly grocery store. The Olympic had one screen and 1800 seats. The structure was destroyed by a fire on November 27, 1919. Many years after it burned and the rubble was cleared away a new building rose there which housed the Colberts Department Store for decades. The Colberts building burned September 23, 1977 heavily damaging the building next door which had originally housed the Texas Theater. After the fire both the buildings were razed and replaced with a parking lot. |
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