Booker-T Theatre
132 N. Farish Street,
Jackson,
MS
39269
132 N. Farish Street,
Jackson,
MS
39269
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Previously operated by: Theaters Service Co.
Styles: Streamline Moderne
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The Booker-T Theatre was opened in 1938 with seating listed at 300 It was an African American theatre. From the mid-1940’s through its closing in it was operated by Theaters Service Co.
The Booker-T closed in 1946 and received a Streamline Moderne style makeover, reopening on April 13, 1946. It was closed on January 29, 1956 with Jock Mahoney in “Overland Pacific”. It became a furniture store, and was eventually demolished.
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Did Booker-T and the M.G.s ever play there?Only joking.
Jerry Dallas’s Movie Theaters in Twentieth-Century Jackson, Mississippi says that the Booker-T Theatre was in a new brick building erected on the site of the first Alamo Theatre.
It appears to be opened in 1938. Construction of the theater began in November 1937.
Closed for a streamline moderne refresh in 1946 and came back with that new look on April 13, 1946. The last show listed is January 29, 1956 with a double feature of “The Human Jungle” and “Overland Pacific.” That times out with a ten-year leasing expiry. It became the Regal Furniture Store in 1957. Its neighbor, the Booker T Grill continued into the 1990s as part of the Farish Street Historic District well after the theatre closed.