Pick Theatre
Chapel Hill,
NC
27514
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The Pick Theatre was in operation prior to 1941, when it was under the control of Paramount Pictures Inc., through their subsidiary H.F. Kincey. It was still operating through to at least 1950.
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Wasn’t this the only theatre that permitted African-Americans in Chapel Hill? I read somewhere that this was the “colored” theatre in town between Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
In his book ‘African American Theatre Buildings’ Eric Leddel Smith lists the Hollywood Theatre and the Standard Theatre as African American Theatres in Chapel Hill, NC. The Hollywood between the years 1949-1955 and the Standard between 1931-1950.
A single-line item in Boxoffice of September 17, 1938, datelined Chapel Hill, reads: “The Pickwick Theatre is being remodeled.” Could the Pick be the same theater, wick-less?
Opened in 1930 closed in 1955.