11 East Franklin Street., Chapel Hill, North Carolina
| Dates of Operation | 1926* - 1931* | ||||||||
| Performance Types | movies | ||||||||
| Capacity | 300 (1926*) | ||||||||
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| Description | Pickwick Theater- Orange County’s first movie theater. Owned and operated by Samuel J. Brockwell. Silent movies originally played with accompanying organ until talking movies were shown in 1929/1930. Mable Hill- organist. Fire in 1924. By the early 1920s, W. S. Roberson was the proprietor of the theater and L. J. Phipps was the manager. Theater closed in 1931 due to a lack of business during the Great Depression. Carolina Theater opened around the same time and may have took away business. | ||||||||
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