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Dixie_Theatre commented about Dixie Theatre on Sep 8, 2017 at 2:18 pm

My great-grandmother started the Dixie theatre, Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) Shannon Pitner, with her husband James Dan Pitner, when they had silent movies. They introduced ‘talkies’ in the late 1920’s and my grandmother and mother would ride ‘The Rebel’ train down to Ripley and would watch free movies. When Lizzie died in 1952, her daughter Annie Pitner took over as owner. Annie would drive to Memphis weekly to exchange films. She sold it before she passed away in 1974. It later burned in the late ‘70’s or '80’s. Bill