Magnolia Theatre

127 E. Bankhead Street,
New Albany, MS 38652

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50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on May 8, 2025 at 11:05 pm

This opened as the Magnolia Theatre in 1948. It did receive a brief closure before reopening under the Cine Theatre name. It then made a brief closure in 1998 and was renamed the Magnolia Civic Center. It wasn’t until December 2023 when the original Magnolia Theatre name returned following the theater’s 75th anniversary.

  • New Albany also had two older indoor theaters, which were the Ritz and the Royal. The Ritz likely opened in late-1939 at the Cohn building on South Front Street after being purchased by David Webster and J.M. Lamb that July. Unfortunately the Ritz was destroyed by a fire in October 1953 and its aftermath remains unknown. I cannot find any information about the Royal for now.
SethG
SethG on October 7, 2017 at 9:22 pm

Streetview needs adjustment. Since it’s called the Magnolia Civic Center (with a horrible new fake stucco front), I assume the Cine was the Magnolia (typo ‘Magnolis’ in the description).

kpdennis
kpdennis on April 26, 2009 at 7:53 am

A 1996 shot of the Cine – doesn’t appear any different in the decade passing since the posted 1986 view:
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