Carver Theater

A three-story theater front faced in glazed white brick, framed by a bracketed cornice and a molded band of terra-cotta garland swags below the parapet. Two round oculus windows flank a central ornamental panel from which a scrolled vertical blade sign lettered "GLOBE THEATRE" projected; two tall rectangular windows sit below at the second story. At the sidewalk a metal marquee sheltered the entrance and flanking poster boards, hung with banners for the house's talking-picture programs.

The Globe Theatre stood at 1310 Franklin Avenue — the stretch of Franklin later renamed Dr. Martin Luther King Drive — in what is now Downtown West. By the fall of 1931 it was a talking-picture house that also ran special vaudeville days, opening its 1931 talkie season that October with bills that included Aloha, Shipmates, and The Sunrise Trail.