Tiger Theatre
157 N. College Street,
Auburn,
AL
36830
157 N. College Street,
Auburn,
AL
36830
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Tiger Theatre for sale 15 Jul 1984, Sun The Opelika-Auburn News (Opelika, Alabama) Newspapers.com
Closed in 1970 and reopened on September 15th, 1972
A book called Lost Auburn: A Village Remembered in Period Photographs, by Ralph Draughon says that the Tiger Theatre closed on April 26, 1984. Downtown Auburn’s two other movie theaters, the Village and the War Eagle, both closed the following year.
A master list of buildings designed by Birmingham architect D. O. Whilldin compiled by Thomas M. Shelby lists the Tiger Theatre in Auburn as one of his projects. However, it is listed as a 1927 project, so perhaps Whilldin only designed some alterations the year after the house opened.
The Tiger Theatre had a Reproduco organ to accompany silent pictures.
A history of movie exhibition in Auburn from 1894 to 1928, written as a thesis by Auburn University student Danielle E. Williams, has information about the early years of the Tiger Theatre (PDF here.)
The Tiger Theatre was opened by F. A. Rogers on September 6, 1926. It was the first regular movie theater in Auburn, though movies had been shown in the college auditorium at lest twice a week (Friday and Saturday nights) under the auspices of the local YMCA since 1912.
The College Picture Show, as the YMCA program was called, continued to operate for two years after the Tiger Theatre opened, finally suspending operations in September, 1928.
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Very sorry looking marquee for a PLITT theatre!1981 picture. It was Plitt Theatre in 1983.Summer movie prices here will be $2.00 and $4.00 a seat this from the Knoxville District.