James Theater
319 S. James Street,
Goldsboro,
NC
27530
319 S. James Street,
Goldsboro,
NC
27530
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Previous Names: Rex Auditorium Theatre
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The Rex Auditorium Theatre was opened by 1928 and was an African-American theatre. Renamed James Theatre around 1940. The James Theatre is listed in 1955 with 370 seats.
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The University of North Carolina’s web site about theaters, “Going to the Show,” lists the James Theatre as having been an African-American house.
If the address listed above is correct then the James Theater has been demolished. However, there is a building on the southwest corner of South James and West Spruce Streets (301 South James?) that looks like it could have been a movie theater at one time.
In the 1928 Goldsboro city directory, 319 S. James is listed as the location of the Rex Auditorium Theatre, a moving picture house for black patrons, operated by J. K. Darden. This house was apparently the successor to the Rex Theatre on W. Chestnut Street, which was not listed in the 1928 directory.