Buckhead Theatre (Atlanta, Georgia)

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3110 Roswell Road Northeast
Atlanta, GA 30305
(404) 843-2825
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The Buckhead Theatre is one of those great small venues to catch a band. Large enough to catch national acts, but small enough to keep it intimate and personal.

The Buckhead Theatre (later Capri, currently Roxy) was designed by Daniell and Beutell and opened on June 2, 1930. Daniell and Beutell used similar architectural ornament on their earlier Madison Theatre (at 496 Flat Shoals Avenue, in West Atlanta) which opened in 1927.

The theatre was one of the first purpose-built houses for sound pictures in Atlanta, although it was bestowed with functional organ chambers and grille screens which never heard the sound of a theatre organ. Originally seating 1,056 patrons with a stage 25 feet wide, the Buckhead represented an expenditure of $250,000 (according to the Atlanta Constitution). The house curtain was of burgundy velour with heavy gold applique and fringe.

Davis and Coart were early lease holders of the theatre, and in 1935, they sold this lease to the Alabama company of Terry McDaniel of Montgomery. The Buckhead was also used for civic functions, including early concerts of the Buckhead Symphony Orchestra.

According to the Atlanta Constitution..."When Mae West's first film, "She Done Him Wrong" was suppressed in [downtown]Atlanta, the Buckhead Theatre presented it with extraordinary success, and its repeated presentation there was something of a national sensation among theatre operators.