A Bit of History

The Star Theatre in Moulton, Ala.



Selling everything inside..seats, doors, glass blocks, bricks and all the fixtures.



The door behind the seats was the " colored entrance".



Taken from the projection room




The projection room toilet and sink



ticket window



The " colored" ticket window

Ever since we bought our land and saw our " little town" we were wishing that they would remodel the old theatre.  They tried to get a $2 million grant for the remodel but instead they are going to tear it down to make room for a parking lot for the new Court house Annex, they are building.   Chuck read in the paper Thursday that they were going to have a sale of everything in the theatre, starting Friday morning at 8:00.  Of course we were there right at 8:00 in hoping to be able to buy a piece of history( we bought a glass block) of our little town and also just to get to see what the theatre looked like inside.   It had been closed since 1969!  ...now that's a lot of  time for dirt and cob webs to gather and it was pretty dirty and falling down inside, but it sure was fun seeing it all.  We talked to several people ...you know how people talk to ya and tell ya their life history, up here..lol.  One older lady told us how she used to come to the movies there when she was little and how the " colored people" had their own separate entrance and ticket window.  Then they had to go up stairs to the baloney because they couldn't sit with the " whites".  She laughed and said that the colored had the best seats in the house.  Another lady told us she hadn't grown up there but her husband did and she was there to buy something for a surprise for him.  I'm always telling Chuck how I wish I could see our little town like it was when all the stores were open and the theatre was being used and the teenagers used to drive around and around the square on Friday nights.  The girls went one way and the boys the other....ha!  I feel so lucky to be able to live in our little town now....but I wish I could say...." yep! I grew up here".