Cherokee Theatre
Court Street,
Monroe,
GA
30655
Court Street,
Monroe,
GA
30655
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The January 7, 1938 issue of Motion Picture Herald reported that the Cherokee Theatre in Monroe had been purchased by John W. Peck, Sr., owner of movie houses in Sparta and Eatonton, Georgia. The Cherokee was built by partners Henry McDaniel Tichenor and Robert L. Nowell, Jr.. Nowell had taken over a venerable house called the Idlehour Theatre in 1922, operating it for several years before partnering with Tichenor.
A December, 1938 newspaper item says that the Cherokee Theatre “…was built eight years ago….” The house is listed with 750 seats in the 1931 FDY, along with the 250-seat Idlehour, which was still a silent house, but Monroe itself is missing in 1930. A comment on a post on the Monroe Museum’s Facebook page indicates that the Cherokee was on Court Street, but I’ve been unable to narrow it down farther.