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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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.