American philanthropist and real estate inventor (1879–1967)
Karl Hoblitzelle
Hoblitzelle in 1952
Born
October 22, 1879
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died
March 8, 1967 (aged 87)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Resting place
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Theater owner, philanthropist
Spouse
Esther Walker
Relatives
Samuel Ogle (paternal great-grandfather)
Karl Hoblitzelle (October 22, 1879 – March 8, 1967) was an American theater owner, real estate investor, and philanthropist. He was the co-founder of the Interstate Theaters Company, a chain of vaudeville theaters (later movie theaters), now a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. He was the first theater owner to add air conditioning to movie theaters in the United States, and the first to add sound in the Southwest. He also helped support the construction of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
KarlHoblitzelle (October 22, 1879 – March 8, 1967) was an American theater owner, real estate investor, and philanthropist. He was the co-founder of the...
the foundation was established by Karl and Esther Hoblitzelle in 1942. Miller, Robert (March 6, 2002). "Hoblitzelle gives its biggest gift to center"...
physicians and caregivers. Under the leadership of Edward H. Cary and KarlHoblitzelle, a group of Dallas citizens organized Southwestern Medical Foundation...
married Texas businessman KarlHoblitzelle, a manager of movie and vaudeville theatres. The couple founded the Hoblitzelle Foundation in 1942, which still...
the current campus is on was part of 100 acres donated by KarlHoblitzelle and the Hoblitzelle Foundation to The Hockaday School. Hockaday then leased the...
television station was filed on October 23, 1944, when local businessman KarlHoblitzelle, owner of movie theater chain Interstate Circuit Theatres, applied...
US Actress 1959 October 15 Jane Darwell US Actress 1967 October 22 KarlHoblitzelle US Movie theater owner 1967 November 4 Will Rogers US Actor, Comedian...
but today the spire is floodlit from below. The following words by KarlHoblitzelle, chairman of the board for Republic National Bank from 1945 to 1965...
commissions. An early client was KarlHoblitzelle's Interstate Amusement Company. The first two theatres he designed for Hoblitzelle were the Fort Worth Majestic...
newly expanded Women's and Children's Hospital, later renamed Karl and Esther Hoblitzelle Memorial Hospital. At this point "medical center" was accordingly...
in June 1938 he formed The Dispatch-Journal Publishing Company with KarlHoblitzelle and John Moroney to acquire the Dispatch and another evening newspaper...
donated his collection to the Hoblitzelle Theatre Library at the University of Texas at Austin. In the 1960s, the Hoblitzelle Library became part of the...
Richard Eliot Chamberlin Shiing Shen Chern Sarvadaman Chowla Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford Edward Foyle Collingwood Charles Galton Darwin Harold Davenport...
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1958 — Hoblitzelle Award for Research in Agricultural Sciences 1964 — Member of the National...
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