Pilot Theatre
126 W. Main Street,
Pilot Mountain,
NC
27041
126 W. Main Street,
Pilot Mountain,
NC
27041
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The Pilot Theatre was open in 1940. It could seat 205 patrons. The theatre was closed in the mid to late-1950’s.
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There is no such address. Highest even 100 on the west end is 134, which quite obviously was not a theater. Going E, the highest even is 108, which belongs to a bank. 126 W Main is a possibility. It’s the right size and shape, but it does have an old fire siren on top, so it might have been municipal.
I asked someone that owns one of the businesses on Main Street, she said that she had lived in Pilot all of her life and that the movie theater had been located just a little off the main street, where a building that used to be a grocery store sits now. I walked around and couldn’t find specifically where she was talking about.
My grandmother worked the box office at the Pilot Theatre, it was her first job in the late 40’s/early 50’s. Before her passing, she relayed to me that she remembers the balcony being used for the African American patrons, and how kind they always were to her. She also remembered that her boss would occasionally give her a $10 bonus in cash at the end of a successful season.
She might have been talking about the building on S Depot St that has the HR Block in it, or the building on S Davis St that has a real estate office in it. Either way, it’s clear the original contributor supplied a spurious address, and this was never on Main at all. Sounds like the status needs to be changed to demolished. The theater first appears in the 1939 listings, and is still listed in the 1957 directory.
This is the second out of two theaters in Pilot Mountain being named the Pilot Theatre, opening in March 1939 as a replacement of the first Pilot Theatre which closed a few weeks back. R.H. Kennedy of Winston-Salem was its original manager. The theater closed in 1956 when it went up for auction.