Quincy Music Theatre
118 East Washington Street,
Quincy,
FL
32351
118 East Washington Street,
Quincy,
FL
32351
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The Quincy Music Theatre opened in 1949 as the Leaf Theater. The Leaf Theater was only one of two movie theaters located in Quincy, Florida.
The Leaf Theater closed in 1980. In 1983, the Leaf Theatre was purchased and, through grants and private donations, the building was restored.
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Major, I don’t know if this information will be of any help to you but I did find that the Hill Drive-In in Quincy opened in the 1950’s with a car capacity of 250. The Roxy Theatre was open in the 1940’s and was operated as an African American Theatre. Closing sometime in the 1950’s. Seating was listed at 350. The Shaw Theatre was open in the late-1930’s with seating listed at 600. The Shaw closed sometime in the 1950’s. These theatre are not listed on CT.
Thanks. I was most likely going to be in the Quincy area tomorrow and thought I would try and check them out. I’ll poke around downtown, I guess.
Nice looking Theatre.
Another 2009 photo of the former Leaf Theatre.
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Can you tell me where the Roxy was located?
I took a few more pictures of the Leaf today. You’ll notice two separates sets of doors. The doors on the left were for white patrons and led straight into the auditorium, while the doors on the right led black patrons into the balcony.
Here are my pictures from January 2011.
There’s a great nightime shot of the Leaf in Jonathon Demme’s ‘Something Wild’
The Shaw and the Roxy were the same. It was located on Hwy 90 W (Jefferson St, I think). It was torn down after being closed for many years. I wish I could have toured it and I understand there were many items left in the building.
The historical Leaf Theater shows movies periodically. It houses Quincy Music Theatre, the production company that puts on several live musical theater productions and other similar events throughout the year. For the historical side of the Leaf Theatre go to: www.facebook.com/HistoricLeafTheatre To get updates on current productions go to: www.facebook.com/QuincyMusicTheatre
I remember both the Shaw and Leaf theater’s as a child in the 50’s I would be dropped off every Saturday at the Shaw theater with 25 cents in my hand . Admission was 9 cents , For that you got to see 2 grade B westerns Roy Rogers , Gene Au try . Hopalong cassidy , Johnny Mack Brown and many others .2 serials and at least 3 cartoons . candy was 5 cents . popcorn was 5 cents and of course they had penny candy so the got the entire 25 cents ! We would always watch everything 2 times so it was the cheapest way to babysit kids for about 5 hours !