Note: this post is part of the photo series Vintage Movie Theaters across the USA
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Last month, my friend and I embarked on a road trip, beginning west of Tallahassee and onward to Savannah. On December 28, we made our way through two cities in southeastern Georgia and came across some cool vintage theaters. So what was I do ? Snap, snap away, of course. Here are the pics. Hope you enjoy them.
Driving east on Route 38, we made our way through Valdosta, Georgia...
and came across the Dosta Playhouse, which is now used primarily for live theater shows.
According to Cinema Treasures, the theater first opened in 1941, and showed movies.
One user commented that the theater used to be segregated.
Continuing northeast on Route 38, we passed through Waycross, Georgia.
First we saw the RITZ theater, which is - sadly - closed now.
But according to Cinema Treasures, it was a thriving theater
in the 1940s and 50s.
A close-up of the relief - don't you just love this?
Just around the block is another theater - The Ritz.
Was originally a vaudeville house, and opened around 1913 according to Cinema Treasures.
It had a grand reopening in 1935, and showed movies starring Katherine Hepburn and Claudette Colbert.
I love these old box office windows!!!!
They are so rare!
Now it is used primarily for community theater.
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