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Kammerer gives a continuation of short histories of theaters in Greenville. Local movie houses have included: The Colonial Theatre, the first popular black theater, built on Albemarle Ave. 1919/20. It was later called The Plaza Theatre. The building collapsed on Aug. 5, 1961. Next was, The Strand Theatre, which opened in 1923 in the Hines Building on Dickinson Ave, and later called the Isis Theatre and Everybody’s Theatre. The next was The New Theater, opened on Evans Street in 1927, later called The Capital Theatre and then The Colony Theatre. It closed in 1955. Next was The Roxy Theatre, the second popular black theater in Greenville, started in 1947 on Albemarle Ave. And lastly, The Plaza Cinema, which opened at Pitt Plaza Shopping Center in 1968.