Ashby Theatre
925 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive NW,
Atlanta,
GA
30314
925 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive NW,
Atlanta,
GA
30314
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The Ashby was an African-American theatre managed by the Bailey’s Theatre circuit. To the best of my finite knowledge, the building still existed, albeit not as a theatre, on up through the 1980s on this stretch that was formerly known as Hunter Street.
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Jack Coursey
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I don’t know if it occupies the whole building or not, but there is a barber shop listed for this address:
Ogletree Barber Shop
925 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Nw
Atlanta, GA 30314
(404) 659-9739
The Ashby Theater is still standing. The Barber Shop is only in a small part of the building.
In the 1990s there was a television movie made in Atlanta called Soul Survivor. Isaac Hayes was in it as well as three other African American actors. They played a defunct soul group that a British DJ wanted to bring back. When he first came to Memphis (although the movie was filmed in Atlanta) he came to this theater to see a recording studio. The exterior was the old Ashby Theater but the interior did not look like it does from the outside.
The theatre is now called the Edifice Dinner Theatre or it was in this 1086 photo.
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Chuck The Ashby Theater has not been called the Edifice Dinner Theater for over 20 years. If you drive by the theater today, you will see the marquee is covered up.
The point I was making is that there should be a AKA Eddifice Dinner Theatre added to the header since it was called by that name, at least in 1986 as per the photo. Looks like most of the buildings in that small complex there are all boarded up.
The main facade of the building has a small entrance, a glass door – no sign indicating what’s in it, but the facade is recently repainted – nothing’s boarded up.