In 1948, brothers Jerry and Sherman Silver and their sister, Helen Meagher Fisher, a young widow with three children, bought the Wings Theatre, leased the Texas Theatre, and moved from Minnesota to Grand Prairie, Texas, then a small but growing town of 13,241. The family soon began designing their third Grand Prairie movie house, the Uptown Theatre at 120 East Main Street. It opened on March 17, 1950, as a first-run movie theatre with 1,100 seats and a small stage for live performances. Considered state-of-the-art for its time, it featured sloped floor seating, a glass-enclosed cry room, spring-loaded seats, oversized chairs for customers "of size," and a large lobby mural depicting the history of Grand Prairie. Tickets originally cost 35 cents for adults and 12 cents for children, and the theatre became known for its pickle juice snow cones and Old Maid half-popped popcorn bags. Donna Meagher, Mrs. Fisher's youngest daughter, began working there as an usher at age 10, while her older sister Pat, age 13, worked in concessions and the box office. Helen Fisher and her husband, Lee Fisher, bought out the Silver brothers in 1959 and operated the Uptown until 1965, when Mrs. Fisher transferred ownership to Donna Meagher Easterling, who had become a local attorney. Easterling continued to operate it as a movie house well into the 1990s. In 2005, through the brokerage efforts of her sister, Pat Meagher Watson Capps, the City of Grand Prairie purchased the theatre with plans to restore it, and it reopened on November 8, 2008.