A recent event revived my memory of the Cabarrus: YOUTUBE featured a short subject, said to have been produced in 1967, which predicted such things as the Internet, giant flat television screens and tiny camcorders. It was so accurate in its forecasts of the technological future that some people suspected a hoax. I remember seeing this feature at the Cabarrus Theater in Concord in 1967, when it was shown with the classic Michelangelo Antonioni film, BLOW UP!
I’m new to this wonderful site and I offer a belated answer to Thomas2:
The theater you remember was the COLONIAL, located on North Main Street in Kannapolis. It was the first Kannapolis theater to go out of business (1955). And, unlike the other closed theaters that were almost immediately converted to other business, the Colonial sat unused for many years. I have a picture taken about ten years after it closed. Perhaps I can post it if the add-a-photo feature gets up and running!
A recent event revived my memory of the Cabarrus: YOUTUBE featured a short subject, said to have been produced in 1967, which predicted such things as the Internet, giant flat television screens and tiny camcorders. It was so accurate in its forecasts of the technological future that some people suspected a hoax. I remember seeing this feature at the Cabarrus Theater in Concord in 1967, when it was shown with the classic Michelangelo Antonioni film, BLOW UP!
I’m new to this wonderful site and I offer a belated answer to Thomas2:
The theater you remember was the COLONIAL, located on North Main Street in Kannapolis. It was the first Kannapolis theater to go out of business (1955). And, unlike the other closed theaters that were almost immediately converted to other business, the Colonial sat unused for many years. I have a picture taken about ten years after it closed. Perhaps I can post it if the add-a-photo feature gets up and running!