Roxy Theatre

131 E. Broughton Street,
Savannah, GA 31401

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SethG
SethG on September 5, 2025 at 10:50 am

The two pictures that only show the replacement should be deleted. We can use one of the postcards, which actually show the theater.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on September 5, 2025 at 9:35 am

The description’s opening year of 1931 for the Roxy is mistaken. The Boxoffice item about the Roxy’s opening cited in my first comment is from 1941. The Arcadia was still listed in the FDY that year, though listed as closed. The date May 10 is probably correct though.

rivest266
rivest266 on August 13, 2025 at 2:30 pm

The Arcadia Theatre commenced operations on October 4th, 1911, with its newspaper advertisements concluding in 1931. Subsequently, Weis Theatres reopened the venue under the name Roxy on May 10th; however, operations ceased in 1953.

(rewritten by CoPilot). Grand opening ads posted.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on August 10, 2018 at 2:36 pm

The December, 1911 issue of Motography had this news about the Arcadia Theatre:

“The Arcadia theater, recently opened at Savannah by the Savannah Picture Plays Company of that city, is one of the nicest and most up-to-date moving picture houses in the South. The house has a seating capacity of almost 800 and was constructed at a cost of $40,000. The cost of admission is 10 cents.”

SidKCols
SidKCols on May 6, 2014 at 3:33 pm

This is the Avon. The Roxy (my favorite dumpy theater)was on the corner of Abercorn and Broughton and became Woolworth’s.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on November 29, 2011 at 3:58 am

“Historic Signs of Savannah,” by Justin Gunther (Google Books preview,) says that the Roxy Theatre was demolished to make way for a Woolworth store that was opened in 1954.

Jim6962
Jim6962 on August 27, 2011 at 6:36 am

Edit: Not Congress St, it was State St that was south of Broughton. The Avon auditorium was on State St.

Jim6962
Jim6962 on August 26, 2011 at 7:12 pm

Picture of the round marquee/entrance is/was the Avon (actual auditorium was across the lane on Congress St) I understand in early times there was a small theatre in this entrance section call the Bandbox. The Roxy was to the left of the Avon where Woolworths was later located.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on October 23, 2009 at 2:29 am

The June 7, 1941, issue of Boxoffice said that Fred G. Weis had recently opened the Roxy Theatre in Savannah. The item said that the Roxy was located on the site of the Arcadia Theatre, a Lucas & Jenkins house which Weis had taken over early in 1941.

Though the phrasing of the June 7 item made it sound as though the Roxy was new construction, a February 8 Boxoffice item about the takeover had said that Weis and his partners, operating as F&W Theatres, intended to remodel the Arcadia and perhaps give it a new name. As four months would have been little time for demolition and rebuilding, it’s most likely that the Roxy was in the same building as the Arcadia, which would thus be an aka.