Remembering the Roxy

Larger than Life

Contacting Large Organizations

What Could Have Been

By Avery Braxton

Our Civic & Community class started this project with some lofty goals: historic recognition of the building, locate an owner, generate interest in returning this to a productive use.

Digging in

Macon likes to boast it has more acreage on the National Register of Historic Places than any other city in Georgia. Most of those are…

The Last Memories

Over the years, the Roxy has been a place of fun and worship, of flavor and spirit, but sadly now the building has seen better…

Winding down..

With only four weeks left in the semester, we are putting the final pieces together. This past week has involved us reviewing our…

The Performers

Back in its heyday, the Roxy Theatre was more than just a place to catch a movie. It also played host to live music and local shows. The Roxy is perhaps most noteworthy as being a place where some patrons said they caught an early glimpse of a young Otis Redding.

The Patrons

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. We were able to track down some former Roxy patrons about what it was…

Loose Ends & Old Memories

As the semester starts to wind down so does this project and after weeks of digging through Macon’s history, our…