Broadway Theatre
215 Hay Street,
Fayetteville,
NC
28301
215 Hay Street,
Fayetteville,
NC
28301
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The original Broadway Theatre on this same site opened in 1916 as the Strand Theatre, and was renamed the Broadway Theatre in 1924. An announcement that the Strand Theatre was soon to open appeared in the October 7, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World. Owner H.T. Drake already operated a smaller movie house called the Lyric Theatre.
The Broadway did not show X movies, however there was a walk-in X rated theater in the 500 block of Hay street.
Grindhouse forever man
Three of architect Erle G. Stillwell’s plans and drawings of the Broadway Theatre are linked from this page at DocSouth’s “Going to the Show” section.
This and every other Hay Street theatre still operating in the 1970s formed what was possibly the closest thing to New York City’s infamous “Forty Deuce” (42nd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue)within North Carolina.
This was also a grindhouse cinema that specialized in a variety of “B” movies too. All that would change by the early-1970’s when this theater went from showing “B” movies to “XXX” rated adult films. It remained that way until it’s closing in 1979.
The theatre was still around during the 1970’s when it was an ADULT theatre showing X-rated films. It closed in 1979.