For more than a hundred years—through both world wars, the Great Depression, and countless agricultural busts and booms—the residents of Clifton have been able to watch a movie at the Cliftex. The single-screen theater has stood here in the cattle country of Bosque County since 1916, surviving droughts, floods, and the rise of streaming video, under a line of caretakers whose names are inscribed on a long stretch of wooden plaques hanging in the lobby. Generations have been weaned on the theater’s Saturday matinees, coming here for their first movies and first dates before eventually returning with their grandchildren in tow. The Cliftex, located a few dozen miles northwest of Waco, bills itself as the oldest continuously operating cinema in Texas, which would rank it…
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