Diamond Theater
Seventh Street and 23rd Avenue,
Tuscaloosa,
AL
35401
Seventh Street and 23rd Avenue,
Tuscaloosa,
AL
35401
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A nice looking theater from the outside, could definately have used some restoration when it was in use as a bar.
Unfortunately, by 2007 it had been demolished.
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This website has a photo of the Diamond theater.
Listed in the Film Daily Yearbook;1941 and 1943 editions as being operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary Wilby-Kincey. The 1950 edition of F.D.Y. give a street address as 23rd Avenue.
Here is a recent photo of the Diamond Theater.
A Reproduco piano/organ unit may have been used in the Diamond for silent movie accompaniment.
Here is an article dated 10/14/07. The theater building has been demolished, and the marquee has been saved and put into storage:
http://tinyurl.com/2vg2tl
This is a news video about the demolition.
A view from 1957 of the Diamond Theater in Tuscaloosa.
This theatre was touted in ads as “The South’s Finest Colored Theatre”.
The public library of Henderson County, North Carolina, has published a book titled “Buildings as History” which is about the works of Hendersonville architect Erle G. Stillwell. The Diamond Theatre in Tuscaloosa is listed as one of the many theaters he designed.
2006 photo of the Diamond Theatre.
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