
New Daisy Theatre
330 Beale Street,
Memphis,
TN
38103
330 Beale Street,
Memphis,
TN
38103
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Opened in 1941 but closed since December of 2018, the New Daisy was unable to celebrate its 80th birthday. But it was taken over by the Downtown Memphis Commission in 2022 and reopened with live event programming in January of 2023.
This item from the January 4, 1941 issue of Showmen’s Trade Review must be about the New Daisy project, despite the slight address discrepancy:
1977 sees the New Daisy showing “THE FOUR OF US”, “THE ROGUE” and “THE RUNAWAYS” Rated R.
Last time I was in the New Daisy was about 1990. There were no seats, the interior was painted completely black. There were plenty of “disco lights” and beer signs as the only interior decor. An opening had been cut between the auditorium the adjacent store front to the west. It was, in every sense of the words, a mosh-pit and I do mean pit. However, it was busy every weekend and plenty of emerging bands played there.
Here are a couple of recent photos of the New Daisy Theater in Memphis.
It seems like the New Daisy Theatre opened around 1942. It’s not listed in the 1941 Film Daily Yearbook, but is listed in the 1943 edition.