Athens Theatre
Main Street,
Athens,
TN
37303
Main Street,
Athens,
TN
37303
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It may had closed in the 1950s. It wasn’t listed in the 1960s at all according to the Knoxville Journal.
The Athens Theatre’s site before construction is formerly a hotel known as the old “Force Hotel”. Erection began on June 5, 1925 and the ground broke later that September. The Athens Theatre opened in early 1926.
Is this theatre closed or gone?
A brief item in the January 18, 1941, issue of Boxoffice Magazine said that the new Athens Theatre had recently opened with the musical “Barnyard Follies” as the initial offering. The February 1 issue of Boxoffice said that the Athens was the eighth house of the Manning & Wink circuit.
And is there a theatre in the college town of Cleveland, TN?
If someone could post a photo of this closed theater, I thank you. BTW, Athens is the home of Mayfield Ice Cream…great tour and ice cream parlor.