Jacobs Theatre
Main Street and Broadway Street,
McComb,
MS
39648
Main Street and Broadway Street,
McComb,
MS
39648
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The McComb Enterprise-Journal though I checked on how early the State Theatre has been operating, and the earliest information I can find about the State dates back to an attraction in Late 1926. So as on my bet, it opened around that time.
The State and the Strand were both the theaters in the city of McComb as of 1930, running films, it may be confusing however but it was just the Enterprise-Journal or some information maybe led off from.
An interesting article published in the McComb Enterprise-Journal on July 31, 2017 has the story of Jacob’s Theatre as told by original operator Jacob Alford’s grandson. The article says that Jacob Alford operated the theater from 1916 to 1926.
The house is listed inFilm Daily Yearbook through 1929 as Jacobs Theatre (no apostrophe) and then in 1930 the only house listed at McComb is the State Theatre, its first appearance. The newspaper article says that Jacob Alford built the State Theatre after leaving Jacob’s Theatre.
Jacob’s Theatre was an upstairs house, and the ground floor was occupied by a bank. In later years, a new owner, Xavier Kramer, added another floor to the building where he operated a roller skating rink called Kramer’s Roof, while the lower floors were leased to the J.C. Penney company for a store. Later still, the entire building, which was located at Main and Broadway Streets, became the location of the Jubilee Performing Arts Center, which occupied the building until 2017. In July of that year, the upper floors of the building suddenly collapsed. The lower floors have been salvaged, however, and today house a banquet facility called Kramer’s Roof.