Rex Theatre
Main Street,
Follansbee,
WV
26037
Main Street,
Follansbee,
WV
26037
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Uploaded a 1915 ad for the Family Theatre. Don’t really know where it belongs but Joe Vogel mentioned it in the comments for the Rex.
The Rexy Theatre was in operation by 1931, when the March 28 issue of the Follansbee Review reported that a labor meeting would be held at the Rexy that night. It was owned by the Floyd brothers, who also had the Strand Theatre.
Earlier, around 1916-1918, the Floyds ran a Follansbee house called the Family Theatre, which had opened in 1913 as the Star Theatre. There is a possibility, though it’s not a certainty, that the Family later became the Rexy or the Strand. A local source says that the Family Theatre building is now occupied by the American Legion Hall, which is at 998 Main Street.
I am from there. It was the Rex. At least till the mid sixties.