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SethG commented about Sunset Drive-In on Oct 1, 2018 at 6:17 pm

Map marker is VERY far away from Hudson.

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SethG commented about Playhouse Theatre on Oct 1, 2018 at 6:17 pm

Should be listed as demolished.

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SethG commented about Academy Theatre on Sep 28, 2018 at 5:50 pm

Now a church. This is a very old building, and the original entrance was off Academy St.

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SethG commented about Strand Theater on Sep 18, 2018 at 6:59 pm

Streetview is wrong. Address must be wrong, unless this has been demolished. 24 is a tiny commercial building which looks postwar, and the next building is a huge one-story garage or car barn. The building after that is 36. Looking at the big building, it may originally have been two buildings, and some windows have been filled in. Perhaps a small part of the theater remains?

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SethG commented about Show Shop Theatre on Sep 15, 2018 at 11:13 pm

Probably built in 1913, which is the date over the entrance.

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SethG commented about Show Shop Theatre on Sep 15, 2018 at 11:09 pm

Address is 94 North St. Now a seedy-looking church. Cornice removed, shop windows filled with tacky stone and Home Depot plastic windows. Huge Gold Medal Flour ghost ad on the back, with ‘Alhambra Theatre’ just visible at the top.

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SethG commented about Strand Theatre on Sep 15, 2018 at 1:58 am

If this hasn’t been demolished, the only candidate is the masonic lodge at 41.

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SethG commented about Hi-Way Drive-In on Sep 10, 2018 at 8:56 pm

Odd that the ad spells it ‘Hi-Way’, while the sign says ‘Hi Way’, or possibly even ‘Hiway’.

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SethG commented about Hi-Way Drive-In on Sep 10, 2018 at 8:50 pm

Should be listed as demolished. Just a sign out by the highway.

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SethG commented about Town Theatre on Sep 8, 2018 at 8:30 pm

Looks like when Front goes from E to W, odds and evens switch sides, meaning this has been demolished. Must have been about where the depot is now.

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SethG commented about Graham Cinema on Sep 8, 2018 at 5:37 pm

According to the NRHP listing, the theater was built in 1928. Listing also says the theater was gutted by a fire in 1935, but that doesn’t jibe with the 1938 photo I found. I suppose the auditorium could have been destroyed in the fire, and the front remodeled later?

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SethG commented about Bosworth Theatre on Aug 26, 2018 at 3:45 pm

Pretty sure this has been demolished. Streetview is blurry and terrible, but unless this is the white plaster thing (which looks smaller than the building in the picture), this is gone.

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SethG commented about Memorial Hall on Aug 26, 2018 at 3:39 pm

Currently houses the post office to the left, auditorium was to the right with entry through a door on the back corner.

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SethG commented about Davis Theatre 4 on Aug 26, 2018 at 3:36 pm

According to history on the website, the building was a livery stable, then a dealership, then a roller rink for one year (1933), then a theater.

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SethG commented about Royal Theatre on Aug 26, 2018 at 5:24 am

Was probably not on S Pine. 1918 Sanborn map shows a theater at 115 W 2nd, which is still there, and obviously was a theater until much later than that. Looks vacant, but the poster cases are still visible.

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SethG commented about Davis Theatre 4 on Aug 26, 2018 at 4:30 am

New website is higginsvilledavis.com. Prices are pretty high for a small town, $9 for adults.

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SethG commented about Davis Theatre 4 on Aug 26, 2018 at 4:27 am

Once again, Chuck got a lot of things wrong on this listing. The front is not limestone, it’s brick, and always was. It’s painted (tan and brown), which never does brick any favors, but looks nothing like stone. Theater is not closed. It may have closed in 2012 (definitely closed in the 2013 streetview), but it was showing first runs when we passed through today. The upright is not blue, and even in the 2008 streetview it’s the same brown it is today.

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SethG commented about Hamilton Community Arts Theatre on Aug 26, 2018 at 4:06 am

Maybe open again as some sort of live theater/event space? Building recently painted, and the lobby looks to be in pretty good shape. Inside the blah modern doors are a set of older doors which have an ‘H’ monogram. Not sure what the ‘H’ could have stood for. Maybe the ‘H’ in H.T.?

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SethG commented about State Theatre on Aug 22, 2018 at 5:09 pm

Those aren’t black panels, they’re glass block, which obviously doesn’t rust. I’ve never seen vitrolite way up on the facade get dirt all over it. In addition, doing that small ‘tower’ on the right in vitrolite would have been almost impossible. Again, notice the rounded corners, and the thickness of the panels. Nobody made vitrolite like that. Finally, notice that in the pictures after it was removed, there were no gobs of epoxy left all over the brick, like there should have been with vitrolite.

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SethG commented about State Theatre on Aug 21, 2018 at 9:35 pm

You can tell that it isn’t vitrolite. Look at the seams between the panels (notice the corners are slightly rounded), and all the rust.

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SethG commented about Gem Theatre on Aug 20, 2018 at 1:12 am

Address for the Gem is 121 N Chatham. It was located in the John F. Lambe Building. According to the NRHP listing for downtown, the Gem opened December 1913. Façade was remodeled in 1923. The Gem must have been closed by 1939, when a neighboring store expanded to include the building.

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SethG commented about Gem Theatre on Aug 19, 2018 at 11:26 pm

Siler City isn’t a county seat. Pittsboro is. Cherokee County is not adjacent, it’s at least 50 miles to the west. I’m sure the counties were listed alphabetically. I assume the transcription is bad, and the header of the page is the two counties listed on that page.

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SethG commented about Iris Theater on Aug 19, 2018 at 7:45 pm

Address is wrong. This is at 27 S Main. It’s gotten a really ugly remodel, and is now a one story building with an ugly canopy across the front.

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SethG commented about Gem Theater on Aug 19, 2018 at 7:39 pm

Long gone, needs to be listed as demolished.

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SethG commented about Tomahawk Theatre on Aug 13, 2018 at 5:52 pm

Streetview needs to be fixed. There was an older Empress here, built in the teens. It was demolished and the current structure built in 1936. It closed in 1988.