Jamestown Theater
128 Main Street,
Smithfield,
VA
23430
128 Main Street,
Smithfield,
VA
23430
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The Jamestown Theater did close in April 1931. It was located in the 100 block of Main Street in the Jamestown Hotel Building.
The Smithfield Theater opened in May 1932 in another building in the 200 block of Main Street.
The Jamestown and the Smithfield did not share a physical location though the Manager of the Smithfield was also the first Manager of the Smithfield.
The Smithfield was built by Captain Scott of Hampton who had operated the Messick Theater in Poquoson, the American in Phoebus, the Rex, The Scott and The Lyric in downtown Hampton.
The addresses on the map wsasser uploaded appear to be obsolete. It shows the Jamestown Hotel on the south side of Main Street between Mason Street and Church Street (not labeled on the map, but it’s the street angling off to the southeast.) That block is now the 100 block.
I notice that the old map also shows both odd and even numbers on both sides of the street. The numbering system today has odd numbers on the south side and even numbers on the north. I suspect that the renumbering took place when Church Street, which ends at Main Street on the old map, was cut through to the north.