Hollywood Theatre
405 E. Main Street,
Carrboro,
NC
27510
405 E. Main Street,
Carrboro,
NC
27510
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Located in the Carrboro district to the west of Chapel Hill. The Hollywood Theatre was opened in 1939. By 1949 thru 1955 it operated as an African-American theatre.
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MODERN ADDRESS IS 405 EAST MAIN STREET
I found a program in a pill of trash for Hollywood theatre. featuring six movies. the devils mask, Rebecca, the beast of borneo, voodoo devil drums, into the valley of outlaws, and follow that woman. the only one in the us probably!
The Hollywood theater began operations in 1939 on East Main Street in Carrboro, North Carolina after E. Carrington Smith,the manager of the segregated Carolina Theater located on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, saw a business opportunity in operating a local cinema. He appointed Kenneth Jones to be the manager of the theater. At the time, Hollywood Theater was one of three movie venues in the area open to Black patrons, the others being Durham’s Carolina Theater and Wonderland Theater.
Following its establishment in 1939, the Hollywood Theater drove the once-popular Standard Theater out of business. The Standard Theater, which had been open since 1924, was owned and operated by African American entrepreneur, Durwood O’Kelly.The Hollywood Theater, as a white-owned business, sourced a great deal of their customers from the Standard Theater, proving to be the ultimate cause of its closure in the same year.