State Theatre
131 E. Whitner Street
Anderson, SC
Opened 1939
Closed 1972

The State Theatre in Anderson is now home to the Anderson Community Theatre. The entrance has changed very little.

On a trip to Anderson in June, 2003, we met a man whoremembered going to the old State Theater when he was young. Identifying himself as Dickie, he said, “We lived just down the street from here. You could get into the State Theater for the admission price of six Coca-Cola bottle caps. Some of my friends would distract the neighborhood grocery store owner while another friend and I tipped the bottle cap container on the drink machine. We always came up with enough caps to get us all into the State Theater for the day.”

Reference Materials:

"The History of the Theatres In Anderson, S.C."
by Harry Osteen. Video 24181695, Anderson County Library

Correspondence from Pendleton District Commission, Historical, Recreational, Tourism

"Anderson City Directory - 1938"
Baldwin Directory Company, and Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association, 1938

"Anderson City Directory - 1952"
Hill Directory Company, 1952

"SCAR 5: Anderson 1935 (Part 1)"
USC Newsfilm (Movietonews, etc.) collections at http://www.sc.edu/library/newsfilm/

"SCAR 8A: Anderson (Our Gang)"
USC Newsfilm (Movietonews, etc.) collections at http://www.sc.edu/library/newsfilm/