Camelot Theater
48 E. Antrim Drive,
Greenville,
SC
29607
48 E. Antrim Drive,
Greenville,
SC
29607
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One of the best theaters in town. Used to be one large auditorium and was cut up into smaller ones.
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Some trivia about the original Camelot theatre. The theatre was built by the Wilber-Kinsey theatre chain, they were a part of the ABC theatre group. In those days the theatre manager was allowed to suggest a theatre name, the only catch was the name could not be more than 7 letters long as marquees were expensive. The theatres manager was aware that Wilber-Kinsey had built a theatre in Myrtle Beach and named it the Camelot. The name was chosen because the theatre was located on Kings Highway. He liked the name and suggested it, Mr Kinsey agreed because he thought the name fit the location in Greenville and he already had the drawings for the marquee from the Myrtle Beach theatre.
Rick, How did you know that? Been wondering about that for years. I had heard that Camelot/Myrtle Beach came first but never sure. How much do you know of the Wilby-Kinsey chain? I did attempt to recreate the Camelot signage on the building in 05, but its not quite
right. I got the amelot okay but the C is not finished. I do think the Camelot’s original manager came from Myrtle Beach. Heard that?
Andrew
Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve seen a post on here. I had forgotten about this forum. How is the Camelot doing bussiness wise these days? I usually go every week or so up there to see a movie and it’s never crowded so I was a little concerned. Me and the friends are almost always up there on Saturday night and it’s never crowded then ether although there was a decent amount at Leatherheads.
CAMELOT THEATRE was a PLITT theatre and On Dec.30 1983 your manager was Robert Presnell.
How is Robert by the way?
I don’t know,hopefully he was a real theatre dawg and is on CT smiling that someone found his name. Really,Robin gave me a stack of old PLITT memos and wow,all the theatres had the managers names on them. A few theatres aren’t on CT. like the Westgate in Spartanburg,S.C., SPRINGS THEATRE in Ocala, MALL theatres,Johnson City,TENN. Camelot Theatre in Myrtle Beach,and SUNILAND in N. Miami. Maybe they have new names,i don’t know and can’t know all about theatres.
Hey,TSLOEWS i left you a post on the MONSTER RAMA DRIVE-in Site. Make fun of my late shows will you!
Oh yeah I will.
Ken, you might want to put this theatres web site in the related websites, makes it easier than going through all the comment section.
http://greenvillecamelot.com/
Hey Chuck,
I would love to see your pictures of the Colonial Theatre in Hartford, CT when it was a Cinerama theatre!
Thanks,
Roland