Rice Theater with Plenty of Smoke

ID: 1685 ~ Source: "Rice Theater in Flames" Newspapers.com. The Crowley Post-Signal, July 22, 1956. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-crowley-post-signal-rice-theater-in/145925798/. ~ Date: 1956

This file appears in: Setting Sights on the Rice

Yellow smoke billowed out of the Rice Theater Friday afternoon just before opening time when some 25-year-old film stored in a cabinet with paper records caught fire from spontaneous combustion

This file appears in: Setting Sights on the Rice

Setting Sights on the Rice

By Xian Maynor

A rich history of film entertainment, community, tragedy, and rebirth at Crowley's longest operating theater, The Rice Theater