Delta Theater

The Delta had a short first name and a long dark spell. Cinema Treasures says it opened as the Conrad Theatre with Jean Parker in Louisiana, 200 seats and one screen, and was sold in July 1934; the city's walking tour says Collins Conrad opened it as the Delta in April 1934. Either way, it reopened as a CinemaScope house in June 1955. It cut to weekends in September 1977, had closed by the end of that year and still sat shut in 1986, until the Opelousas Little Theatre was staging live shows there by early 2010.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 0.6 mi
  A heritage park in Opelousas built around the Venus House of about 1791, the home of a free Creole woman of color, Marie Francois Venus, with an old schoolhouse, Methodist church and the visitor center's zydeco music exhibit.
• Prairie Acadian Cultural Center — 21 mi
  A National Park Service center in Eunice on the Cajun prairie, with exhibits on the Acadians who settled the prairies, a Courir de Mardi Gras display, free music and cooking demonstrations, and the shuttered Liberty Theatre nearby.
• Vermilionville — 23 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Atchafalaya Welcome Center — 25 mi
  A state welcome center inside the Atchafalaya Basin, the nation's largest river swamp, with exhibits on Basin history and life, a film, a crawfishing boat and French-speaking staff.

More markers nearby

• Opelousas (Capital of Confederate Louisiana) — steps away
• Jim Bowie Oak — steps away
• Opelousas — steps away
• Lawyers Row — steps away