Cherokee Theater
603-605 N. Main Street,
Sweetwater,
TN
37874
603-605 N. Main Street,
Sweetwater,
TN
37874
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Currently a resale shop.
Address is both 603 and 605.
A tourist brochure (PDF here) says that the Cherokee Theatre was built in 1953. It replaced an earlier house called the Gay Theatre, which had opened in 1929 at another location.
The brochure doesn’t mention it, but as late as 1927, Sweetwater had a movie house called the Moneta Theatre, which dated back to the 1910s.
Actually, pretty sure it’s 603 N. Main St., and is now an Edward Jones office. http://mcminn.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/marketplace/businesses/images/2009/01/07/Edward_Jones_t670.JPG?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d
A 1986 view of the Cherokee Theater in Sweetwater.