Am hoping for the best. It would be great if the original auditorium could be restored to a single screen, but for now, am glad that it will once again be operational. The onus is now on the fine arts community to keep it running and making it the premier venue for art, classic and foregin film.
There were two other theatres, both with a seating capacity of 150, which operated in Macclenny between 1931 and 1945, the Dixie and the Baker. It is reasonable to beleive, base on the town’s populace being under 500 during this time period, that they were all the same venue.
The Florida is a jewel! The community keeps it up and going. Not exactly a twin in that the balcony has been closed off to create a smaller screening room rather than splitting the auditorium in half.
The Princess is currently vacant and on the market. The auditorium appears to be relatively intact but in need of some major restoration and upgrading if the future tenant plans to use it again as an entertainment venue. The town draws a lot of tourist so it might have has some potential either as a cinema or live performance hall.
Now the Port Theatre Art and Culture Center, the exterior is remarkable good shape but the interior is in need of total restoration. There is a considerable about our support for the persevation of the theatre within the community but the work that needs to be done will come at a substantial cost. Let’s hope for the best.
Any idea as to when this theatre closed? The interior has been gutted and transformed into a medical clinic. A little bit of the exterior remains intact, just enough to reveal it was once a theatre.
The Naples theatre was in operation at least through the mid 1960s and was located on 3rd Street. In that there is no evidence of a Quonset building in that area, it appears that it was razed.
There was a Grand Theatre at this site in the early 1900s. Was the Konover just a later iteration of the Grand or was the Grand demolished? The seating capacity was roughly the same.
The was a Haines City Theatre (not the twin) which resided in the downtown area of Haines City around the late forties or early fifties. Might this be it under a different banner.
There is some overlapped in their (Fox and Crestview) respective histories which suggest that the two might be one. Also, based on the town’s size, I don’t think it would have been profitable to have both theatres in operation at once. But I could be wrong…
The Princess was at one time a hard-top theatre which opened in 1926 with a seating capacity of 200. It was later expanded to accommodate 330 in 1934. The theater was destroyed by fire on April 13, 1965. The Princess Drive-In came into being at a later date.
The theatre is now the Coliseum Center Perform Arts. The awful veneer which was overlaid on the front has been removed and efforts are underway to restore it to its original facade.
I sit corrected! I do recall seeing the Out of Towner’s playing there. I guess what threw me off was never having to wait in a long line to get tickets as was the case at Phipps and Lenox. So glad that the Buckhead and the Marietta Strand have so far missed the wreaking ball.
Why wasn’t the Capri part of the first run showplaces of the 1970s? It was in the heart of Buckhead and would have been ideal for big screen epics. Don’t recall their ever being a 70mm film being presented there. There was also talk of “twining” it just before it morphed into the Cinema & Drafthouse.
Still push to restore the original auditorium and equip it with 70mm projection. That will make even Jurassic Park, ver 962 look great.
Am hoping for the best. It would be great if the original auditorium could be restored to a single screen, but for now, am glad that it will once again be operational. The onus is now on the fine arts community to keep it running and making it the premier venue for art, classic and foregin film.
There were two other theatres, both with a seating capacity of 150, which operated in Macclenny between 1931 and 1945, the Dixie and the Baker. It is reasonable to beleive, base on the town’s populace being under 500 during this time period, that they were all the same venue.
The Florida is a jewel! The community keeps it up and going. Not exactly a twin in that the balcony has been closed off to create a smaller screening room rather than splitting the auditorium in half.
The Princess is currently vacant and on the market. The auditorium appears to be relatively intact but in need of some major restoration and upgrading if the future tenant plans to use it again as an entertainment venue. The town draws a lot of tourist so it might have has some potential either as a cinema or live performance hall.
Now the Port Theatre Art and Culture Center, the exterior is remarkable good shape but the interior is in need of total restoration. There is a considerable about our support for the persevation of the theatre within the community but the work that needs to be done will come at a substantial cost. Let’s hope for the best.
Any idea as to when this theatre closed? The interior has been gutted and transformed into a medical clinic. A little bit of the exterior remains intact, just enough to reveal it was once a theatre.
The Naples theatre was in operation at least through the mid 1960s and was located on 3rd Street. In that there is no evidence of a Quonset building in that area, it appears that it was razed.
There was a Grand Theatre at this site in the early 1900s. Was the Konover just a later iteration of the Grand or was the Grand demolished? The seating capacity was roughly the same.
There was also an Arcade Theatre operating in east Havana during this time period.
The exterior is identical to the AMC 8 plex which cropped up during the 1980s through the US.
The was a Haines City Theatre (not the twin) which resided in the downtown area of Haines City around the late forties or early fifties. Might this be it under a different banner.
The actual address is/was: 1132 Ave D, Fort Pierce, FL 34950.
There is some overlapped in their (Fox and Crestview) respective histories which suggest that the two might be one. Also, based on the town’s size, I don’t think it would have been profitable to have both theatres in operation at once. But I could be wrong…
The theatre is now the “More than Conquerors Church”.
The Princess was at one time a hard-top theatre which opened in 1926 with a seating capacity of 200. It was later expanded to accommodate 330 in 1934. The theater was destroyed by fire on April 13, 1965. The Princess Drive-In came into being at a later date.
By chance was this ever named the Orpheum?
The Allen Theatre building still exist but the interior has been gutted and repurposed for retail.
The theatre is now the Coliseum Center Perform Arts. The awful veneer which was overlaid on the front has been removed and efforts are underway to restore it to its original facade.
Did this operate in the building called the Opera House on Sutter Street?
Update the status to “Demolished”. The building which currently in habits this spot was built specifically for retail and within the past 20 years.
I sit corrected! I do recall seeing the Out of Towner’s playing there. I guess what threw me off was never having to wait in a long line to get tickets as was the case at Phipps and Lenox. So glad that the Buckhead and the Marietta Strand have so far missed the wreaking ball.
This was initially the Floyd theatre when it opened around 1985, then reconfigured and renamed the Island Twin around 1993.
The Empire was located at 42 Georgia Avenue, SW
Why wasn’t the Capri part of the first run showplaces of the 1970s? It was in the heart of Buckhead and would have been ideal for big screen epics. Don’t recall their ever being a 70mm film being presented there. There was also talk of “twining” it just before it morphed into the Cinema & Drafthouse.