Petal Theatre
E. Central Avenue and S. Main Street,
Petal,
MS
39465
E. Central Avenue and S. Main Street,
Petal,
MS
39465
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The Petal Theatre opened its doors on March 8, 1946 with a one-day showing of Van Johnson in “Thrill Of A Romance” along with a few short subjects. Continuing in operation into portions of the 1950’s, the Petal Theatre was remodeled in July 1956. This didn’t last for long, closing its doors in 1957 and was later placed for sale.
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I’m pretty sure this theater has been demolished. The grand opening ad said that it was across the street from the high school. This was not the current Petal High School, which is quite a way east of the old downtown and looks to have been built no earlier than the 1980s, but an earlier campus that can be seen on the north side of East Central Avenue east of Main Street in a 1960 aerial view of Petal.
The aerial shows a row of commercial structures on the south side of Central, two of which were about the right size to have housed a 329 seat theater. The entire neighborhood has been redeveloped, and Central Avenue realigned, but the buildings were approximately where a modern mini-mall stands, at 114 E. MS Hwy 42.