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Kim Welch
On parade, the Spartanburg High School marching band. The only film simultaneously starring the likes of Kirk Douglas, James Mason and Peter Lorre was 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, released in 1954, but that film was first shown at the Carolina Theater and not the State. By about 1960, the State Theater was reduced to showing reruns, which may explain why that particular movie was playing there. Memory being what it is, this writer for years thought the State Theater burned down in the early '60s, but Marion Peter Holt, author of Magical Places, The Story of Spartanburg's Theatres and Their Entertainments, says the theater burned to the ground in 1970. Shows you what your webmaster knows.
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