from The Courier-Tribune
Chip Womick
Staff Writer
A $1.2 million capital campaign is under way to transform the Sunset Theatre (and space in two buildings next to it) into a performing arts center. We asked readers to share memories of the downtown movie house, which opened in 1930. Here’s what they had to say:
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My favorite memory of the Sunset Theatre happened the year 1957. My wife, Sue, was expecting our only child. The very first time she wore her maternity “top” in public we went to a movie at the Sunset.
I remember parking in front of Belks Department Store (across the street from the Sunset) and getting out of the car and holding her hand as we crossed Sunset Avenue. I was so proud of her and the new “top.” I don’t remember the name of the movie or where we sat but in my mind that will forever be a special time.
I applaud the ones doing all the work to restore our theater. A lot of you know that I am a former Marine and to me the Sunset Theatre is to downtown Asheboro what dress blues are to a Marine. “Semper Fi.” I love my hometown, Asheboro.
H. Carlton Cheek
Asheboro
P.S. Our baby was born a few months after this and her name happens to be Sherry.
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