59 Pollock Street, New Bern, North Carolina
| Dates of Operation | 11/4/1907* - 7/12/1910* | ||||||
| Performance Types | illustrated songs , movies , vaudeville | ||||||
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| Notes | New owners and renovations announed on May 2, 1908; For the 1908 election, the Amusea was open "all night" showing election returns on its canvas via a steropticon (Short passing events, New Bern Weekly Journal, November 4, 1908, p. 4); so popular that some young people were said to have "Amusitis" (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, January 22, 1910, p. 4) and be "Amusianiacs" (ibid, January 28, 1910, p. 4); hand-tinted "colored films" shown in 1908; labeled as "Moving Picture Show" in Sanborn map in September 1908; Mr. Hoge used Amusea to deliver sermon on 'Gambling in Society in New Bern' on Fri. May 1, 1908); Closed for a week in Oct 1910 due to inability to "secure a good vaudeville team" (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, October 20, 1910, p. 4) | ||||||
| Building Notes | also referred to as Amusea; "the store formerly occupied by Messrs Barfoot" (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, October 11, 1907, p. 4); three additional ventilators installed in auditorium (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, March 27, 1908, p. 4); glass front replaced with electric arch and auditorium enlarged (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, March 28, 1908, p. 4); renovations accompanied new ownership (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, May 3, 1908, p. 4); "several new machines" installed in operating room (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, January 11, 1910, p. 4); large electric sign installed at entrance (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, January 19, 1910, p. 4); floor inclined and curtain whitened (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, February 3, 1910, p. 4); green baize with several matching art squares (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, February 20, 1910, p. 4); electric fans installed (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, May 3, 1910, p. 4); all "furnishings and appurtences" were removed from theater and stored (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, December 10, 1910, p. 4); building to be renovated and converted to a mercantile firm to be opened in 1911 (Short passing events, New Bern Daily Journal, December 13, 1910, p. 4); building converted to "a men's haberdashery establishment" opened on March 12, 1912 by Messrs. A. T. Willis & Company (Short passing events, New Bern Weekly Journal, March 12, 1912, p. 1) | ||||||
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