My first time there this past Sunday gave me a nostalgic feeling of the 80's Sunday brunches once sponsored by Mom & Pop establishments. This one had home cooking, was clean, had congenial servers who greeted me with a smile when I placed my order at the steam table. Seeing customers waving and talking with friends added to the warmness . The dulcet singing voice of Jolanda Green ( see below) was icing on the cake.
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| Some of the historic photos from when the Muscoda Mines operated. |
Jolanda Green music
Here's a sample↓↓↓
A great Sunday!😄 |
| Lincoln Theater June 2021 |
" In 1950 the Lincoln was scheduled to screen the 1949 feature "Lost Boundaries", about the family of Dr Albert Johnson who passed for white while living in New England in the 1930s and 1940s. As in Atlanta, Memphis and Birmingham, Bessemer's censors banned the screening. The board's opinion, reported byBessemer Police chief Lacey Alexander, was that, "We didn't want it shown in Bessemer. We didn't like the looks of it. "(copied from Bham Wiki)
Raine put the theater up for sale in 1961 for $40,000. After going through a succession of owners the building was closed as a theater in 1981.
In 2017, actor, Andre Holland , who grew up in Bessemer purchased the theater with the support of his family as local managers. Naming it the Holland Project and given a grant of $21,000 by the Alabama State Council on the Arts they began restoration of the building to benefit the community.
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| Lincoln Theater in its early days. 1948 (copied from Bham Now |
That's it***
