Jasper Theatre
49 S. Main Street,
Jasper,
GA
30143
49 S. Main Street,
Jasper,
GA
30143
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The Jasper Theatre was opened on June 13, 1929 with J. Farrell MacDonald in “Riley, the Cop”. It was closed in 1932 and reopened on August 18, 1933. It was closed on October 30, 1982.
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The Jasper Theatre was located at 49 South Main Street.
The Jasper Theatre was announced in 1929 by Will Richards and on a lot adjoining the Masonic Temple. It appears to have opened June 13, 1929 with “Riley, the Cop.” It appears to have closed October 30, 1982 with “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.”
The town’s other venue, the Lyric Theatre launched August 20, 1927 as a silent movie house in downtown Jasper with Jack Hoxie and Rex, the Wonder Horse, in “Rough and Ready” supported by the Warner short, “What’s Your Hurry” plus a newsreel. It hosted African American film nights and survived to the end of 1928.
The Jasper Theatre closed late in 1932 and reopened less than a year later under the new ownership of Robert Turner on August 18, 1933 - likely with a new sound system. The theatre runs continuously and has RKO films booked and advertised in all of the years from 1933 to 1936. Not sure what evidence exists that the theatre was closed from 1933 to 1936.
The Jasper Theatre is actually still open in 1983, and most likely into the mid-1980s. I cannot find its closing date because of newspaper archives from 1983 to 1989 are missing.
Jasper also had another first-run movie house around that time called the Main Street Theatre, which operated in both the 1980s and 1990s.
Still open in 1983. I saw late-December 1982 showtimes that it continued operating into 1983.