Oak Ridge Community Playhouse

SeeingI on August 7, 2009 at 8:21 am

The Center Theater was built during the Manhattan Project, as part of the “Townsite” shopping center now known as Jackson Square. The theater showed films and hosted live shows. It is now the Oak Ridge Community Playhouse and, having hosted plays since 1943, is the oldest continually-operating communty theaters in the SouthEast. (www.orplayhouse.com)

Following is a link to the Flickr page for the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, showing the Center Theater exterior as well as the Grove, Jefferson and Ridge Theaters, all built by the Army Corps of Engineers for the Manhattan Project, 1942-1945. Also, the Skyway Drive-In, circa 1960s.

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