Reel Three
Eighty-Nine Years
and Still Rolling
Most towns lost their single-screen movie houses decades ago. Eunice kept hers — through a fire, three remodels, and every format Hollywood ever invented.
1937
The Queen opens her doors
November 20, 1937 — opening day starts with a free 9 AM matinee for the kids of Eunice, then the main feature: Errol Flynn in The Perfect Specimen.
1948
Fire — and a comeback
A January fire guts the building. Six months later the Queen reopens, rebuilt. It won’t be the last time this theater refuses to stay down.
1969
Reborn as the Queen Cinema
After a top-to-bottom renovation, the theater relaunches with Gone With the Wind in 70mm — big-city projection in a prairie town of 11,000.
1982–91
One screen becomes three
Twinned in 1982, a third screen added in 1991. Around 500 seats total — enough for the whole town to argue about what to see on a Friday night.
Today
Independent and open every week
Locally run, showing first-run movies the same weekend they hit the big cities — at small-town prices. Nearly a century in, the marquee is still lit.