When Hughesville Had A Movie Theater - The Community Theater

The Community Theater  was located at 50 Main Street in Hughesville
Today, it is the Country Fork Restaurant

 

1932 Photo outside the Community Theater

The Community Theater began as a movie house and skating rink, built by Agnes and Ollie Odell behind their China and Gift Shop in 1910.

Mrs Agnes Odell in front of the Oliver Odell General Store.  This store later became the Community Theater, and today is the Country Fork Restaurant.

The movie house had several names, before becoming the Community Theater in the early 1930s.  The theater showed a cowboy movie ever Friday night, and on Saturday it showed a serial and a cartoon.

1939

The theater appears to have been in operation through the 1960s, possibly into the 1970s.

After the theater closed, the building was used as a furniture store, Widmann's Drug, and later a Dollar Store.  Today the Country Fork restaurant is in this building, and many souvenirs from its theater days are on display inside.

On display inside the Country Fork Restaurant

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In June of 1946, The Hughesville School board leased the large room in the rear of the Community Theater for the Schools Agriculture Department.  At one time, Hughesville's home basketball games were held in that room.

Harry Clayton Wilson, 47, died suddenly in the Hughesville Community Theater, at 9pm on Wednesday March 21 1951.