Roxy Theatre
1650 S. Broad Street,
Commerce,
GA
35029
1650 S. Broad Street,
Commerce,
GA
35029
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Maybe my post was not clear enough. The Colonial Theatre, not the Roxy, was at 1650 S. Broad Street. The Roxy was somewhere in the 1600 block of Elm Street, which is across the railroad tracks from the Colonial’s location on Broad Street.
When the Roxy was first listed in the FDY, in 1935, it had only 275 seats, but in 1937 it began to be listed with 400.
A rather confusing blog post about Commerce reveals that the Roxy Theatre was on S. Elm Street, but the exact location is not made clear. As near as I can puzzle out it was between Pine Street and Central Avenue, which would place it roughly across the street from the Colonial Theatre on S. Broad Street (Elm and Broad are the same street, with a railroad running down the middle and different names for each side of the street.) I believe the Colonial was at modern address 1650 S. Broad, a space which is now occupied by a bar and grill. The Colonial appears on both the 1922 1and 1932 Sanborn maps of Commerce.