Tift Theatre for the Performing Arts
318 S. Main Street,
Tifton,
GA
31793
318 S. Main Street,
Tifton,
GA
31793
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Opened in February 1937 with “Pennies From Heaven”, the Tift Theatre originally had seating for 1,400 and was designed in Art Moderne style, complete with a multicolored tile facade and neon-lit vertical sign and marquee. The interior of the Tift had an unusual theme to its decor, the circus. The theater lasted exactly half a century before it went dark.
Soon afterward, the community gathered behind the Tift to save it, and it was restored and refurbished for use for various forms of live entertainment, as well as being available for special events.
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Here is a photo I took of The Tift Theatre.
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Here is another recent photo of the Tift Theater.
This is a recent close-up view of the Tift Theater.
The Tift Theater website can be found here.
This is a 2008 photo of the Tift Theater.
Here is a black & white photo.
http://flickr.com/photos/24391992@N00/1368978001/
1978 photo of the Tift Theatre.
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1978 Night Photo
Here is a 2009 photo.
I saw the following movies at the Tift Theater in the summer of 1960: Huckleberry Finn, Tall Story, a couple of Toby Tyler movies, The Shaggy Dog, a short regarding the Ingemar Johansson knockout of Floyd Patterson and Trapeze. Also showing that summer, but I could not attend because I was too young to see such a “racy” movie—Room at the Top.