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Roxy reborn, revitalized as new Buckhead showplace
By John Schaffner
editor @ reporternewspapers . net
Buckhead Theatre
Buckhead’s old Roxy Theater is no more.
It has been reborn as the Buckhead Theatre, Buckhead’s answer to Midtown’s Fox Theater—well-appointed after $6 million-plus in renovations and possibly poised to put Buckhead on the map as a stop for top national entertainers.
Buckhead Theatre was the original name of what was the community’s movie theater in the early 1900s. The building is located on Roswell Road, just north of its split from Peachtree Road.
Charles Loudermilk, who is affectionately known by some as “Mr. Buckhead” and who founded one of the community’s most prosperous businesses, Aaron’s Rents (now Aaron’s Inc.), attended movies at the theater when he was 12 years old and it cost 10 cents to get into the movie house and 10 cents to buy a Coca-Cola.
Loudermilk bought the theater a couple of years ago and committed to revitalizing it and making it an entertainment and community meeting centerpiece for Buckhead.
