Carolina Theatre
91 Locust Street,
Spruce Pine,
NC
28777
91 Locust Street,
Spruce Pine,
NC
28777
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Functions: Cultural Center
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News About This Theater
- Feb 18, 2011 — Historic Carolina Theater for sale
- Dec 18, 2006 — Home of the original Carolina Barn Dance (aired in 40's/50's) needs help
This theatre was home of live entertainment, the Carolina Barn Dance, and “silver screen” films in the 1940’s and 1950’s in Spruce Pine, NC. Performers such as Patsy Cline, Bill Monroe, Hank Snow, Sonny James, Kitty Wells, Chet Atkins, String Bean, Scotty and Lula Belle Wiseman, and Fiddlin' Red Wilson performed here.
Currently the theatre is a 501©(3) and in need of donated film and theatre items for our lobby museum, curtains, lighting and equipment, and more to see that this theatre continues to make memories and live on in history.
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Recent comments (view all 9 comments)
The Film Daily Yearbook; 1941 edition gives a seating capacity of 394. In the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. the seating capacity is given as 492.
Interesting bit of theatre history in western NC!
Here is another photo:
http://tinyurl.com/y9jo7wr
Here is the marquee:
http://tinyurl.com/ycufwef
like to lease it possibly and keep it as a theater if…you have a contact number ?..thanks
2009 picture better looking by far from what was posted above,good to see towns save these gems.
theater for sale $195,000
Still for sale in 2017. It appears that efforts to reopen this theatre have stalled.
The building was inundated to the tops of the storefront windows when the North Toe River overflowed during the aftermath of hurricane Helene, September 28, 2024.