Palmetto Theatre
1417 Main Street,
Columbia,
SC
29201
1417 Main Street,
Columbia,
SC
29201
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The theatre was located on the 1400 block of Main Street in Columbia. At that time Main Street had a theatre on each block for six blocks. It was a great looking old style theatre and was a pleasure to start my training as assistant manager and returning a few years later as manager.
I sure wish I had some pictures, as this was truly a great old style theatre with two balconies. The top balcony had its own entrance next to the main entrance and concession stand for African-Americans.
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This site states that five theaters on Main Street in the 1930s were owned by Palmetto Amusements, a subsidiary of Publix. That may explain the origin of the theater’s name:
http://www.nickelodeon.org/fox.php
A couple nice photos of this theatre can be seen at the site below.
http://www.scmovietheatres.com/col_pal.html
1981 photo of the Palmetto Theatre.
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Dickie, I WORKED for ABC/ PLITT THEATRES and everynight i had to call our figures into COLUMBIA and i think you guys were the ABC THEATRE we called from Augusta.Wasn’t our D.M. Mr, Biggs? Anyways, We would almost everynight talk to a girl named PEGGY. I Wonder if i have the right theatre. I know the girl was Peggy.
I can’t believe as big as Columbia is no one in that city has any intrest in the old theatres there. I would love for Dickie to answer a question i left months ago. Oh,well.
Plitt Theatre District Manager,who even treated Assistant Managers decent retires on Nov.8 1983. MARION BIGGS was good and decent district manager and loved the theatres of Columbia,S.C..
Still yet,another dead theatre town.
How can a city the size of Columbia have no one interested in CT ?
Still no local response.Hard to believe.
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