Tennessee Theatre

The Tennessee Theater opened on October 1st, 1928 as the Motion Picture palace. They had live entertainment from day one, but the 1920s movies were popular. It did well during World War 2. People watched the news to see what was going on and across the pond. This was important gathering place and memory make place for the community, for most of the community. Like many theaters, Post War of People involved from was fairly austere. For these huge buildings, it didn't make sense to have a single screen, so that's when we started seeing multiplexes developed in the 1960s. And so this theater fell off. It's just the very beginning of the of the low time in the 1960s because it couldn't compete with the smaller, more modern, more economically efficient place culture are the theater works. In January 2005, the building was fully restored and business boomed.