Hargo Theatre
12762 Broad Street,
Sparta,
GA
31087
12762 Broad Street,
Sparta,
GA
31087
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The history is inaccurate. I was borned in 1972, the year that my father purchased this building. I spent my entire childhood growing up in this building. I was there when this building burned down. It is different experience when you smell the smoke and see your dreams and aspirations go up and smoke. The building was not in bad shape, the seats had been replaced and the owner, my father was trying to protect the historical intergrity of the structure. A true historian and researcher would know that the current building has the same design as the original building and the original bricks for the old building were saved.
The building next door was a flower shop caught fire and burned the theater. The theater wasnt a total lost, but the owner who had a snack bar inside the theater decided to demo and was allow to place that metal building in the center of town. What a Shame!
that doesn’t look like the theatre i was talking about.JFbrantley probably saw the one i did,unless they remodeled the downtown the picture above does not look like the one i saw.
Here’s a photograph [September 2011] of what I believe to be the site of the demolished Hargrove.
thanks J.B. I don’t get by Sparta Much,I remember the theatre being on the corner.
I guess Google Map puts the theater at the corner of Broad Street and Boland Street, Is that correct?
Anyone have more info or photos?
If this theater is one the main street, it should be listed as demolished. I usually drive through Sparta going to Sandersville. I remember about six years ago one Sunday Morning riding through Sparta and seeing the old theater had burned. The building was demolished right after that and a cheesey temporary “snack shack” has been put in the theater’s place.