The Roxy Theatre opened its doors sometime in the early 1950s and played host to movies and shows for nearly a decade. At that time, the theater was just one of many thriving businesses in the part of town known as the Tybee community. Students in the Fall 2015 Civic & Community class were able to track down some former Roxy patrons about what it was like to see a show there. These stories were originally published here.
Nathaniel Person, a custodian at Mercer, attended the Roxy Theatre as a young teenager. Person says that he was about 13 or 14 when he visited the Roxy. He would go with friends to the theater or sometimes take his girlfriend at the time on dates there.
Person was born in Pleasant Hill on what is now called Mt Pleasant Church Road, and moved to Tindall Heights in 1941. Person would sometimes walk from Tindall Heights to the theater. He said it was a nice place to go on the weekends. They ran soap operas at the theater, so he would attend every Saturday to see the new episode. His favorite movie that he saw at the Roxy was No Way Out (1950).
