Palmetto Theatre
1417 Main Street,
Columbia,
SC
29201
1417 Main Street,
Columbia,
SC
29201
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Anyone that worked here,it being a ABC/Plitt Theatre; Check out REMEMBERING PLITT THEATRES on Facebook.
Still no local response.Hard to believe.
How can a city the size of Columbia have no one interested in CT ?
Still yet,another dead theatre town.
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..
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.
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.
1981 photo of the Palmetto Theatre.
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A couple nice photos of this theatre can be seen at the site below.
http://www.scmovietheatres.com/col_pal.html
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
According to Bowers' “Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments” page 551, there was a “Broadway” theatre in Columbia equipped with a Reproduco organ made by the Operators Piano Co. I could not find a page for the Broadway, so I am putting this here for the time being.