Wilson’s only colored motion picture theatre.

globe

Wilson Daily Times, 29 July 1921.

The 1922 Sanborn insurance map of Wilson depicts the Globe Theatre on the second floor of a three-story brick building (in pink) occupied by several businesses and a Masonic lodge. Samuel H. Vick owned the theatre, and his oldest son Daniel L. Vick managed it.

screen-shot-2016-10-22-at-10-31-56-pm

4 comments

  1. Pingback: Progressive citizens, pt. 2. | Black Wide-Awake
  2. Pingback: Anatomy of a photograph: East Nash Street. | Black Wide-Awake
  3. Pingback: High-class musical comedy at the Globe. | Black Wide-Awake
  4. Pingback: The Negroes drove him from town. | Black Wide-Awake

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s