The Frontier Thesis of Texas Culture

Even from outside you could smell the artiness. Standing under the marquee of the Inwood Theatre, in Dallas, waiting to buy a ticket, you’d see the door open and be hit with the unmistakable combination of popcorn, celluloid, cinema!And gin. It’s now common to be able to have a drink before a movie, but back then, in the nineties and aughts, the Inwood was the only theater I knew of where you could imbibe. A night at the Inwood was a whole thing. After buying a ticket, you’d walk past the double doors to the theater and instead enter the single door to the Inwood Lounge. The bar was technically inside the lobby, although it was contained by a wall of opaque glass blocks, and…

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