Pic Theatre
N. 6th Street and W. Pine Street,
Ponchatoula,
LA
70454
N. 6th Street and W. Pine Street,
Ponchatoula,
LA
70454
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On May 4, 1940, Boxoffice reported “Ernest Drake’s new house, the Pic Theatre, seating 600, is now ready.”
The 1950 Film Daily Year Book included the Pic Theatre, at 400 seats, along with the larger Ideal Theatre in Ponchatoula. It was still open in 1962.
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Michael Kilgore
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A 1962 city directory for Hammond, including Ponchatoula, lists the Pic Theatre at 162 N. 6th street, but this address no longer appears to exist. The numbering system is a bit of a pig’s breakfast, with a bar called Stray Cats at 132 N. 6th, something called Landstar in a small building next door numbered 165, and next to that, at the end of the block, an old brick house occupied by an accountant’s office with the address 180. Across 6th Street is a very modern building housing the town’s police station, and it uses the number 195.
The only surviving building among those on the east side of the street that is big enough to have held a 400-seat theater is the bar at 132, and it looks as though its ceiling would be too low. Unless a photo or someone who actually saw the theater turns up I fear the closest we can get to knowing the Pic’s location is the block of 6th Street north of Pine Street, and we can’t even be sure it hasn’t been demolished. But at least the directory reveals that the Pic was still in operation in 1962.