Episode 050 Jeffery Smith, Owner of Downtown Cowtown At The Isis Theatre

Jeffery and Debbie Smith, the owners of Downtown Cowtown At The Isis Theatre, have spent almost five years restoring an all but forgotten piece of Fort Worth history.  

In 1914 the 400 seat Isis Theatre opened its doors to the public. This beautiful building was destroyed by fire in 1935 when a projector malfunctioned and set the Isis ablaze. Rebuilt and reopened in 1933 and then again devastated by a deadly flood in 1949. The theatre was again restored and continued to operate until 1988 when the building was showing signs of age and then basically abandoned. For almost 30 years the theatre sat idle and continued to fall apart.

Then in 2016 a visionary couple took it upon themselves to bring the Isis back from the grave. The restoration process took nearly five long years and enhancement projects still continue to this day.

Now, Downtown Cowtown At The Isis Theatre is finally open! With live entertainment on the weekends and classic films playing on screen during the week. If you don't have time for a show simply pop in for a drink at one of the two speakeasy style bars open seven days a week until midnight.

On December 16th and 17th the theatre will be throwing a big party that you can be apart of : Grand opening Gala starts at 6pm. Night one will have McBride And The Ride Reunion Concert and Night two will be with Katie Kaden and Rose Short from the Voice.

A huge thank you to Jeffery Smith and to the rest of the Staff at the theatre. Thank you!

For information and tickets go to WWW>DOWNTOWNCOWTOWN.COM

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We are honored to team up with the crew at "Knights Quest" Podcast. Check out this very creative  show and all of the links at https://www.kqpodcast.com/ , we played a trailer for them at the end of this episode. Did you catch it?

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Intro music provided with permission to use by Matt Novesky. Matt is the front man for the band Icarus Bell (https://icarusbellofficial.com/) ,Owner of Orb Recording Studios in Austin Texas ( www.orbrecordingstudios.com ), and  is the bassist for the band Blue October out of Houston Texas (https://www.blueoctober.com/)  

The name of the song the intro was sampled from is: Bones by Icarus Bell. You can check Matt’s band out on your favorite streaming service like Amazon music or Spotify. The YouTube version of Bones can be found at this link ( https://youtu.be/d9HLLrvsqi8 )

A HUGE thank you to Matt Novesky for the privilege to share some of your newest art on Fort Worth Roots. I am sincerely looking forward to future creations made by you and the Orb Recording Studios family.

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