Franklin Theatre
100 E.. 4th Avenue,
Franklin,
VA
23851
100 E.. 4th Avenue,
Franklin,
VA
23851
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Previously operated by: Lyon Theater Circuit
Firms: Riddick & Breeden
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The Franklin Theatre was opened in 1921 and operated until 1938. From 1939 to 1944 it was closed.
The Franklin Theatre reopened in 1945 and was closed in 1951.
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Ken Roe
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The December 4, 1920, issue of The Moving Picture World said that a Franklin Theatre at Franklin, Virginia, was being run by a Mr. M. H. Eppstein of Richmond, Virginia.
It is possible that this theater was replaced in 1921, though I’ve found only one notice about the project, this from the February 26 issue of The American Contractor:
Address is wrong. The building was at 100 E 4th. Looks like it was replaced by the bank by the ‘70s or '80s (that fake colonial style is hard to pin down).
An article about Hal J. Lyon in the December 3, 1955 issue of Boxoffice said that he had taken over operation of the Franklin Theatre under a lease in 1929, and later bought the house outright. He opened the Lyon’s State Theatre in 1937, after which the Franklin operated only intermittently, though Lyon still owned the house in 1964, as was noted in an issue of Boxoffice that year.