Kentucky Theatre
211 N. Main Street,
Corbin,
KY
40701
211 N. Main Street,
Corbin,
KY
40701
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At 211 North Main, the Kentucky Theatre launched by Strand Enterprises Circuit and Gordon D. Rowland on December 15, 1925. Schine Circuit took it on in 1938 as Schine’s Kentucky Theatre. It closed in 1941. The circuit was forced to sell the Viv theatre promoting it to reopen August 8, 1942. It closed during the War.
The October 27, 1927, issue of The Motion Picture News reported that the Palace Theatre at Corbin, Kentucky, had been renamed the Kentucky Theatre. The Palace Theatre was mentioned in the July 10, 1915, issue of The Moving Picture World, when it was being managed by an R. E. Gumm.