Carolina Theatre

117 S. Dargan Street,
Florence, SC 29506

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rivest266
rivest266 on August 19, 2023 at 12:42 pm

Reopened June 27th, 1975, as Cinema 5 by Stewart & Everett and closed or placed its last ad on January 22nd, 1984. 1975 ad posted.

RickB
RickB on September 15, 2021 at 8:22 pm

Abandoned Southeast has a feature on this theater. According to this site, the first Carolina Theatre was destroyed in a 1939 fire and rebuilt on the same site, with the new theater opening April 1, 1940. The Carolina showed movies into the 1970s, then hosted a church into the 1980s, then was abandoned. Eventually the City of Florence acquired the building and is said to be renovating it into an events space, with a target opening date of Spring 2022.

SethG
SethG on February 15, 2019 at 11:17 am

Façade has been restored recently. The cheap plastic marquee and ugly letters are gone, the left porthole was reopened, but for some reason they’ve mounted two industrial-looking floodlights on the front.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on June 9, 2009 at 1:32 am

Here is an October 1970 ad from the same source:
http://tinyurl.com/myrc3y

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on June 9, 2009 at 1:17 am

Here is an October 1950 ad from the Florence Morning News:
http://tinyurl.com/m56y8o