Towne Theatre

The Towne Theatre opened on March 6, 1952. The next day’s issue of the Quincy Valley Post-Register said that the $30,000 theater would operate four days a week. The opening feature was the 1951 south seas adventure/romance film “Bird of Paradise” starring Debra Paget, Louis Jourdan and Jeff Chandler. The Towne might have been Quincy’s first movie theater, as the official population didn’t top 300 until the 1940 census, and didn’t reach four digits until after 1950.