Marlboro Civic Center

Not sure why this listing is empty, there’s a bunch of information in the comments. The NRHP listing says that it was built in 1918, as a live theater/opera house. It originally seated 500. It was sold to O.C. Scarborough in 1930, which is when it became a movie theater.

Clyde Street must have been renamed and that is why it won’t map. Built in 1917 as “The Opera House”, this theater has a long and rich history. It is located at 106 Clyde Street in Bennetsville. During its early years, it hosted stage shows, vaudeville, and movies. It was known as the Playhouse Theatre and Garden Theatre in its early days. For much of its life it was the Carolina Theatre. Frank, a volunteer at the Marlboro Civic Center, remembered going to the Carolina Theater as a child. “The entrance was recessed and there was a little ticket booth with a door on it. There was some kind of railing along the entrance because we used to cut monkey flips on it while we were waiting to buy tickets. On Saturday, they opened at one o'clock or two. Of course, we were there a half an hour ahead of time to buy our tickets for a few cents.” Bill Kinney, Editor and Publisher of the Marlboro Advocate-Herald, recalled going to the Carolina Theater. “The only time I could go to the movies was when a bunch of us boys would go. We would go to the Carolina on a Saturday afternoon to see double features like the Westerns and Gangster movies with a cartoon and a newsreel and serial. We’d take a quarter and spend all afternoon. It was ten cents to get in and you could get a five-cent Coca-Cola. We parked our bikes out front without any locks on them.” “Our high school class graduated on the stage of the Carolina Theatre because there was no air conditioning in the school gym where we normally had graduation. Our class got to vote on whether we would graduate in the gym or the theater and we voted for the theater.” In the 1960s, the theater was renamed the Cinema. Its beautiful Beau Arts façade was covered to give the building front a modern look. Like most of the downtown single-screen movie theaters, the Cinema experienced a constant decline in ticket sales over the next two decades. Frank remembered going into the Cinema. “Most of the time it was freezing cold in there. When you’ve opened for a movie and you have five people in the building, you can’t afford to keep it toasty warm.” In the early 1980s, the Cinema closed. It sat abandoned and deteriorating until a group of local citizens decided to see if it would be possible to restore the theater and put it back into service to the Bennettsville community.