The "block building" theater, the Frisco Theater, opened in the early 1950s and stayed in business into the 1960s.
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| Early 1950s photo by Max McAliley |
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1963 Friscola yearbook ad for Frisco City Tractor and Implement Co.
The side of the theater is visibile in the background. |
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Frisco City residents Lou Dunn, Jimmy Tatum, and Annie Laura Tatum tell some of their memories of experiences in the theater.
Residents describe the workings of the theater:
Jimmy and Fredia Tatum, Lou Dunn, Annie Laura Tatum, and Tim Taylor
The theater was the last movie theater open in Frisco City.
The building is now a warehouse for D&D Furniture Factory Outlet.
4 comments:
You didn't mention that the theater served as a Bill's Dollar store for years up until the 1990's.
Thanks, Nick. That's all I remember that building ever being, but I hadn't found a concrete starting date for it yet. Turns out it was also a food distribution center in the 60s/70s. The folks pressure-washing the building revealed that, as well as a couple of Theater names.
Look for this post and the one about the Hayes/Norris barbershop to be greatly expanded in the coming weeks.
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