Ritz Theatre
115 Court Square North,
Talladega,
AL
35160
115 Court Square North,
Talladega,
AL
35160
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Built in 1936, the former Martin Theatre has been restored and reopened a multi-use community arts center. The theater was also the subject of several popular paintings by Davis Cone.
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Ross Melnick
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Another photo of the Ritz Theater can be seen on this website. Click on the photo to expand it.
Here’s a scan of a postcard I have for it, from 1980, when the building still carried the Martin name and was for sale:
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This is another photo of the Ritz Theater.
Here is a more recent photo of the Ritz Theater.
Another recent photo of the Ritz can be seen here.
This is an updated link for the Ritz website.
1981 Photo
Rufus E. Bland was the Martin circuit’s in-house architect from no later than 1948 until at least 1973. He might have been designing for them even earlier, and could have been the original architect of the Ritz, or perhaps he was only the architect of a major remodeling at some later time. It’s possible that he designed all of Martin’s Theatres during the 1950s and 1960s, at least. He’s mentioned in Boxoffice a few dozen times.
Here is a June 2010 photo.
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Modernization described in this 1936 trade article: Boxoffice