Halifax Theatre
519 N. Main Street,
South Boston,
VA
24592
519 N. Main Street,
South Boston,
VA
24592
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The Halifax Theatre was opened around 1938. It is listed as (Closed) in the 1941 & 1943 editions of Film Daily Yearbook. It had reopened by 1950 and continued at least into the mid-1950’s.
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Ken Roe
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Open till ~1969? Can anyone verify the exact date?
Open for sure in 1967.
Owned by Neighborhood Theatre, Inc. of Richmond, Va. Morton G. Thalhimer, Chairman of the Board, they had over 30 theaters in Virginia.
More info and photos are always welcome.
The ionfo on the marquee now reads Sobo’s Main Theatre, but if you do a business check for that name nothing shows up, but the building is still there. The marquee has Hellboy on it which was released in 2004 unless it was Hellboy II which was released in 2008.
Chuck I thought the same thing till I found out SOBO’S MAIN THEATER is located at 532 North Main Street, accross the street from 519 North Main Street.
Proves again how off Google can be. The buildings on the opposite side of the the street (Edward Jones) is at 541 so the Halifax was way up the street. The Solution Store right next door to the Sobo’s Theatre is 536. Again one of the reasons that I never rely on Goodle Mapping.
I got to see “Song of the South” for the very first time in this theatre. My parents took my cousins, my sister, and me to see SotS when Disney re-released it in the early 1970s. What a wonderful experience!
The most recent update at the MySpace page of Sobo’s Main Theatres advertises Hellboy II: The Golden Army as the current attraction. As that movie was released in 2008, that’s probably when the theater closed. The last blog post by the theater’s manager is dated June 16, 2008.