Swanee Theater
200 West Avenue,
Kannapolis,
NC
28081
200 West Avenue,
Kannapolis,
NC
28081
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Restored and reopened as a live music and event venue. A marquee similar to the original has been put back over the entrance. A picture is added of the restored exterior.
2010 photo added as The Visitor Center, courtesy of the Cannon Mills, Kannapolis, NC 1887-2003 Facebook page.
Spent many a Saturday afternoon there, with 50’s and 60’s Sci Fi and horror flicks. Downstairs was a gigantic basement, where the town kept all it’s Christmas decorations. The front row of seats was a good thirty feet from the screen, so you didn’t look up at it. No balcony, and no real stage. It was an easy theatre for a kid to seek into. And I did. A lot!
Swanee back in the day.
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The December 21, 1940, issue of Boxoffice Magazine ran an item telling of personnel shifts at various Kannapolis theaters resulting from the recent opening of the Swanee Theatre.
If any of you ever get a chance to visit Kannapolis, stop by this Visitor’s Center. They have photos inside of the theater in the ‘40s. And then go to The Gem Theatre!
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There was a third theater in Kannapolis called The Dixie Theater. There was a grocery store occupying it until about 2 months ago. It’s scheduled for demolition!
Sadly, no. The Visitor’s Center has,for the most, taken over the building.
This is a beautiful bldg.Does anyone know if it is still equiped at all as a theater?