The $3.5 million Tradewinds Shopping Center was designed by Finck, Stowell & Associates in 1969 in Hanover Park. The original center was anchored by a Zayre big-box discount store, a Dominick’s grocery store, and a Walgreens. But at the outset, an expansion included a place for a diminutive cinema and a bank - or almost enough space. General Cinema signed on to be the provider. The Tradewinds blew in on October 5, 1969 launching theatre-less.
The General Cinema Tradewinds Cinema I & II opened on July 6, 1973 with “Mary Poppins” and “Battle for the Planet of the Apes.” (Based on its position in the Center, we believe that Finck, Stowell & Associates was likely one of the facility’s main architects.) In 1981, the winds had died down and General Cinema downgraded its duplex to a sub-run, dollar discount house. GCC bailed after “Touch & Go,” “Boy Who Could Fly” and “Jumpin' Jack Flash” on December 15, 1986 with the multiplex era in full build-out mode.
The tiny duplex resumed as a dollar house under new operators on December 19, 1986. Under the Classic Cinemas banner from 1987 to 2002, the venue appears to have ceased operations on December 31, 2002 with “Sweet Home Alabama” and, likely, a Bollywood title. The Tradewinds Shopping Center had turned at its 30th anniversary in 1999 with leasing renewals challenging. It became a greyfield-status plaza with vacancies above occupancy rate in the early 21st Century. Certainly, a duplex in the megaplex era was not going to survive or find a new operator.
And 2004 may have been the plaza’s final stand for all of the remaining retailers at the center’s 35-year mark. The cinema was demolished along with the rest of the Tradewinds Center in 2006 in favor of a Menard’s big box home fix-it retail location.
Love that. The area has great history as the Dodge Chicago Plant in WW2, Tucker and Ford after the war with Ford leaving in 1959. The Ford City Shopping Center was announced in 1961 by Harry F Chaddick as a $10 million suburban plaza. Wieboldt’s signed on as anchor in 1962 with a 30-year leasing agreement. Penney’s also joined the project as another anchor. The proposed $1 million, 2,500 seat twin was announced by General Cinema in late April of 1965 along with the Cermak Plaza and the Elmhurst Plaza single screeners. Ford City opened on August 12, 1965.
The GCC Ford City Cinema I & II opened on the North strip expansion with 1,900-seats on May 27, 1966 with an art gallery and auditorium with pushback seats and hi-fi sound. It would be joined by a bowling alley and Jewel’s Turn-Style Family Center big box retail store (later a Venture store and then Sears). The lower level “Peacock Alley” was added to create a sub-level connector between the main mall and the North mall / General Cinema. On February 22, 1973, the theater became the Ford City Cinema I-II-III after an auditorium split. The triplex featured “Shamus,” “The Poseidon Adventure,” and “The World’s Greatest Athlete” at its debut. The venue began 70mm screenings in 1979.
Chaddick proposed a major $10 million West addition and a smaller - and quickly built - $4 million Ford City East addition. There, on July 17, 1981, three screens were added with the launch of the separate GCC Ford City East facility. Movie lovers preferred the original, large screen at the Ford City I-II-III. That auditorium ended in October of 1983 as the original Ford City single screen was closed for the venue’s final refresh. It would re-emerge in December of 1983 as the GCC Ford City I-V, now with five screens.
On August 31, 1987, the original Wieboldt’s anchor store closed and its contents auctioned off just prior to that chain’s Chapter 7 demise. (It would become a Carson Pirie Scott until its 2018 bankruptcy.) A Southwest wing and a proposed Marshall Field anchor was proposed in 1989 and would have taken the retail complex to over 200 stores. However, it wasn’t built. On August 9, 1990, the GCC Ford City closed with “Presumed Innocent,” “Duck Tales: The Movie” splitting with “Quick Change,” “Navy Seals” splitting with “Jungle Book,” “Die Hard 2,” and “Days of Thunder.” The next day, the Ford City 14 replaced the Ford City and Ford City East properties. A retail location for Marshall’s would be in the area once housed by the General Cinema which was demolished.
Penney’s made it to the Mall’s end - June 20, 2026. Like many shuttered malls, the venue was subject to urban explorers and urban vandals. An urban explorer was purportedly attacked by a security guard and then in early October, a mass break-in to the former mall occurred as the City tried to figure out how to better fortify the location in advance of its redevelopment / demolition. And the Ford City 14 just kept on going under AMC.
The Southchase Village Cinemas 7 were launched independently by Lunamar Theater Management, Inc. on June 28, 1991. On May 22, 1992, the venue was downgraded to sub-run, discount $1.50 second-run status as the Southchase Cinemas 7 closing August 30, 1993.
Cobb Theatres picked up the venue on September 3, 1993 as the Cobb Southchase 7. Regal Cinemas purchased Cobb Theatres on July 31, 1997 with the venue retaining its “Cobb” moniker until April 17, 1988 at which time it was renamed as the Regal Southchase 7. Regal closed here on January 25, 2001 in a round of nationwide downsizing.
Touchstar Cinemas, Inc. was formed late in 2001 and reopened here as a first-run house as the Southchase 7 on November 21, 2001. Touchstar would also operate the Sabal Palms 6 in Fort Pierce and the Spring Hill 8. The Southchase 7 venue closed on March 16, 2020 for the COVID-19 pandemic along with the vast majority of other hardtop movie theaters. It resumed operations on June 12, 2020 ahead of many other area theaters. It was still going after its 35th Anniversary.
The grand opening for the Ratliffs as the Daytona was July 15, 1949. They invited Portland musician Earl Taylor to play the theater’s Hammond organ at that launch.
Mr. and Mrs. Norberto Robles purchased the theater and renamed it the Robles Theatre at its relaunch on April 5, 1970.
Fairlane/Litchfield Theatres launches the Carolina Mall III on December 22, 1976 with “Baker’s Hawk,” “Nickelodeon,” and “The Enforcer.” The Carolina Mall had opened theatre-less on September 21, 1972 after being announced more than four years prior.
The entry should be the AMC Bellair Theaters 2. That was its moniker from October 15, 1982 with “My Favorite Year” and “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” to the “temporary closure” on March 31, 1988. (Its former names were the Bellair Plaza Cinema I & II, Bellair Cinema Theatre, and Cinema Theatre.)
In August of 1988, TPI Enterprises of New York took on the venue along with the Daytona 6 and Volusia Market 8. They opted not to reopen the venue. And it sat vacant for nine years.
In February of 1997, musician Charlie Floyd signed a 21-year lease to open a live country music venue in a plan to convert the theater back to a single auditorium. In May of 1997, the venue was scrapped in favor of another cinema in far better condition. Tre Plaza operators gave up in late summer of 2000 after more than a dozen years of vacancy and demolished the Cinema.
The 1910’s era Palace Theatre #1 installed sound in 1928 to remain viable. It closed on June 19, 1940 with “The Farmer’s Daughter" after some 30 years of service. The equipment was undoubtedly moved to the larger, 700-seat New Palace Theatre which opened for Mr. Grengs on July 1, 1940 with “Typhoon.”
Palace Theatre #2 was denied its 80th birthday celebration to the COVID-19 pandemic. But under new operators, it continued with first-run Hollywood films beginning late in 2024.
The Cross River Shopping Center was announced in 1969 to be constructed at 20 North Salem Road, Cross River, NY 10518. In the third iteration of the still unapproved plaza in 1971, it was announced that a 350-seat, 4,200 square foot single-screen, fully automated Jerry Lewis Cinema would join D'Agostino’s Grocery and Chase Bank as the first tenants.
By the time the Cross River Shopping Center was ready, Jerry Lewis Cinema and Network Cinema Corporation had already megaflopped and was in bankruptcy. D'Ags opened first with its supermarket followed by the non-Jerry Lewis now United General Cross RIver Cinema launching April 11, 1973 with “A Separate Peace” and “The Son of Lassies.” The first 1,000 adults got what you’d expect at the opening - a free disposable cigarette lighter. United General was sued and it, too, went out of business and the theater closed. A second operator went into independent operation as the Cross River Cinema before closing on November 30, 1976.
On October 7, 1977, the venue got decidedly trippy new operators Mel and Jeri Barboff complete with a pop art logo and some matching midnight repertory films including Magical Mystery Tour, Pink Floyd Concert Movie, Heavy Traffic, Yellow Submarine, The Harder They Come, and others under the name of the Cross River Repertory Cinema. The cinema had operated for around four years prior to them and, according the new operators, already had broken projection gear and 50 broken seats out of 350. Makes one question the United General workmanship.
The Barboffs also mixed in cult classics from the 1930s. Improvisational dance troupes were featured sporadically in the lobby as part of the pre-show. Leopard skin Victorian sofa and a hand painted sky ceiling were in the lobby as well regularly-schedule yoga classes. The concession stand featured herbal teas along with dried fruits and frozen yogurt before that had really taken off. But the Barboffs closed after just nine months on July 9, 1978.
On August 4, 1978, the venue was taken on by Florin-Creative and they converted it back to mainstream, contemporary fare. They folded at the end of lease on September 30, 1981 (though advertising some unplayed dates in the first days of October).
Florin-Creative likely got very favorable leasing terms reopening as a second-run, discount house on June 17, 1982. And they closed it again on Feb. 2, 1984 with “The Man Who Loved Women.” The showing of “All the Right Moves” was cancelled. The space was converted for other retail purposes as diminutive, single-screen theaters were well out of favor in the multiplex era of cinema exhibition.
The New Palace Theatre (Palace Theatre #2) launches here on July 1, 1940 with “Typhoon” replacing the original Palace Theatre that had its own 30 year run. The Palace theaters have had a legendary run of more than 110 years.
Chuck’s claim of a South Main Cameo Theatre can certainly stand as contributed by him. But checking the facts and looking at the photo - I’d say neither the address nor the depicted building is quite accurate. And the dates provided in the Chuck submitted entry are simply guessy.
Providing what I think is accurate below (but attributed in any way shape or form to Chuck’s name as perhaps I am the one in error). There were two Cameo Theater locations and two Dixie Theater locations.
The Dixie Electric Theatre opened on April 11, 1908 as one of the first dedicated nickelodeons in Madisonville. The second Dixie Theatre was in improved digs at 25 West Center Street (that should have been the address of this entry). Ben Eskind took it on in 1917. E. W. Dozier and F.M. Holeman’s Cameo Theatre (#1) was across the street at 24 West Center. They also operated the Garrick Theatre, locally. But it was here at Eskind’s Dixie that ran into problems when the Madisonville City Council was against its integrated policy in 1925. Operator Eskind remodeled the house so it has a balcony for African American patrons and its main floor for White patrons. It relaunched as the Kentucky Theatre on May 19, 1926 with Syd Chaplin in “The Man on the Box.” On June 12, 1929, Eskind added sound to remain commercially viable with Al Jolson in “The Singing Fool.” Eskind suffered a stroke and David Eskind took it on.
David Eskind ordered new leather seats and a new sound system improving the venue under the banner: The New Kentucky Theatre: “Home of the Hits" in 1931. Dozier bought out Holeman and formed the Capitol Amusement Company. It reopened the silent-era Cameo with sound on January 23, 1931 hoping to undermine business here at the Kentucky Theatre. But Capitol simply bought out the Kentucky moving the Cameo across the street to here.
The Kentucky Theatre was renamed the Cameo Theatre (“#2”) on December 31, 1931 with “Safe in Hell.” Cameo Theatre #1 was retired becoming a retail store. Cameo #2 was likely operating on a new 25-year leasing agreement. Tony Sudekum’s Crescent Amusement - in operation since 1907 - bought out the Capitol folks in 1932. Cameo #2’s audi was gutted by fire on January 17, 1937 destroying the auditorium but leaving the venue structurally intact. Crescent Amusement rebuilt the venue with a streamline moderne sensibility at its reopening on December 21, 1939 with “The Llano Kid.”
Cameo #2 closed on October 7, 1956 with “The Road to Denver” and “IT Came from Beneath the Sea.” It was razed in 1976 after serving as a house of worship briefly and a consistent home to rummage sales before its final stint as home to a print shop.
Cameo Theatre #2 Take 2 - The auditorium of the Cameo was destroyed in January of 1937… but almost three years later… it is rebuilt and relit as the Cameo.
Operator Eskind remodeled the Dixie Theatre so it has a balcony for African American patrons and the main floor for White patrons. It relaunched as the Kentucky Theatre on May 19, 1926 with Syd Chaplin in “The Man on the Box.”
The pride of San Juan County, the San Juan Theatre opened on August 23, 1946 with “Duffy’s Tavern.” As of the 2020s, it is a second-run theatre showing Hollywood hits within a month of their original release date.
The $3.5 million Tradewinds Shopping Center was designed by Finck, Stowell & Associates in 1969 in Hanover Park. The original center was anchored by a Zayre big-box discount store, a Dominick’s grocery store, and a Walgreens. But at the outset, an expansion included a place for a diminutive cinema and a bank - or almost enough space. General Cinema signed on to be the provider. The Tradewinds blew in on October 5, 1969 launching theatre-less.
The General Cinema Tradewinds Cinema I & II opened on July 6, 1973 with “Mary Poppins” and “Battle for the Planet of the Apes.” (Based on its position in the Center, we believe that Finck, Stowell & Associates was likely one of the facility’s main architects.) In 1981, the winds had died down and General Cinema downgraded its duplex to a sub-run, dollar discount house. GCC bailed after “Touch & Go,” “Boy Who Could Fly” and “Jumpin' Jack Flash” on December 15, 1986 with the multiplex era in full build-out mode.
The tiny duplex resumed as a dollar house under new operators on December 19, 1986. Under the Classic Cinemas banner from 1987 to 2002, the venue appears to have ceased operations on December 31, 2002 with “Sweet Home Alabama” and, likely, a Bollywood title. The Tradewinds Shopping Center had turned at its 30th anniversary in 1999 with leasing renewals challenging. It became a greyfield-status plaza with vacancies above occupancy rate in the early 21st Century. Certainly, a duplex in the megaplex era was not going to survive or find a new operator.
And 2004 may have been the plaza’s final stand for all of the remaining retailers at the center’s 35-year mark. The cinema was demolished along with the rest of the Tradewinds Center in 2006 in favor of a Menard’s big box home fix-it retail location.
(1989)
Love that. The area has great history as the Dodge Chicago Plant in WW2, Tucker and Ford after the war with Ford leaving in 1959. The Ford City Shopping Center was announced in 1961 by Harry F Chaddick as a $10 million suburban plaza. Wieboldt’s signed on as anchor in 1962 with a 30-year leasing agreement. Penney’s also joined the project as another anchor. The proposed $1 million, 2,500 seat twin was announced by General Cinema in late April of 1965 along with the Cermak Plaza and the Elmhurst Plaza single screeners. Ford City opened on August 12, 1965.
The GCC Ford City Cinema I & II opened on the North strip expansion with 1,900-seats on May 27, 1966 with an art gallery and auditorium with pushback seats and hi-fi sound. It would be joined by a bowling alley and Jewel’s Turn-Style Family Center big box retail store (later a Venture store and then Sears). The lower level “Peacock Alley” was added to create a sub-level connector between the main mall and the North mall / General Cinema. On February 22, 1973, the theater became the Ford City Cinema I-II-III after an auditorium split. The triplex featured “Shamus,” “The Poseidon Adventure,” and “The World’s Greatest Athlete” at its debut. The venue began 70mm screenings in 1979.
Chaddick proposed a major $10 million West addition and a smaller - and quickly built - $4 million Ford City East addition. There, on July 17, 1981, three screens were added with the launch of the separate GCC Ford City East facility. Movie lovers preferred the original, large screen at the Ford City I-II-III. That auditorium ended in October of 1983 as the original Ford City single screen was closed for the venue’s final refresh. It would re-emerge in December of 1983 as the GCC Ford City I-V, now with five screens.
On August 31, 1987, the original Wieboldt’s anchor store closed and its contents auctioned off just prior to that chain’s Chapter 7 demise. (It would become a Carson Pirie Scott until its 2018 bankruptcy.) A Southwest wing and a proposed Marshall Field anchor was proposed in 1989 and would have taken the retail complex to over 200 stores. However, it wasn’t built. On August 9, 1990, the GCC Ford City closed with “Presumed Innocent,” “Duck Tales: The Movie” splitting with “Quick Change,” “Navy Seals” splitting with “Jungle Book,” “Die Hard 2,” and “Days of Thunder.” The next day, the Ford City 14 replaced the Ford City and Ford City East properties. A retail location for Marshall’s would be in the area once housed by the General Cinema which was demolished.
Penney’s made it to the Mall’s end - June 20, 2026. Like many shuttered malls, the venue was subject to urban explorers and urban vandals. An urban explorer was purportedly attacked by a security guard and then in early October, a mass break-in to the former mall occurred as the City tried to figure out how to better fortify the location in advance of its redevelopment / demolition. And the Ford City 14 just kept on going under AMC.
The Southchase Village Cinemas 7 were launched independently by Lunamar Theater Management, Inc. on June 28, 1991. On May 22, 1992, the venue was downgraded to sub-run, discount $1.50 second-run status as the Southchase Cinemas 7 closing August 30, 1993.
Cobb Theatres picked up the venue on September 3, 1993 as the Cobb Southchase 7. Regal Cinemas purchased Cobb Theatres on July 31, 1997 with the venue retaining its “Cobb” moniker until April 17, 1988 at which time it was renamed as the Regal Southchase 7. Regal closed here on January 25, 2001 in a round of nationwide downsizing.
Touchstar Cinemas, Inc. was formed late in 2001 and reopened here as a first-run house as the Southchase 7 on November 21, 2001. Touchstar would also operate the Sabal Palms 6 in Fort Pierce and the Spring Hill 8. The Southchase 7 venue closed on March 16, 2020 for the COVID-19 pandemic along with the vast majority of other hardtop movie theaters. It resumed operations on June 12, 2020 ahead of many other area theaters. It was still going after its 35th Anniversary.
Some specifics to the entry above:
The grand opening for the Ratliffs as the Daytona was July 15, 1949. They invited Portland musician Earl Taylor to play the theater’s Hammond organ at that launch.
Mr. and Mrs. Norberto Robles purchased the theater and renamed it the Robles Theatre at its relaunch on April 5, 1970.
The Dayton opened on October 12, 1948 with June Havner in “Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!”
Fairlane/Litchfield Theatres launches the Carolina Mall III on December 22, 1976 with “Baker’s Hawk,” “Nickelodeon,” and “The Enforcer.” The Carolina Mall had opened theatre-less on September 21, 1972 after being announced more than four years prior.
Closed September 27, 2026 at the expiry of a second 20-year leasing term.
The entry should be the AMC Bellair Theaters 2. That was its moniker from October 15, 1982 with “My Favorite Year” and “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” to the “temporary closure” on March 31, 1988. (Its former names were the Bellair Plaza Cinema I & II, Bellair Cinema Theatre, and Cinema Theatre.)
In August of 1988, TPI Enterprises of New York took on the venue along with the Daytona 6 and Volusia Market 8. They opted not to reopen the venue. And it sat vacant for nine years.
In February of 1997, musician Charlie Floyd signed a 21-year lease to open a live country music venue in a plan to convert the theater back to a single auditorium. In May of 1997, the venue was scrapped in favor of another cinema in far better condition. Tre Plaza operators gave up in late summer of 2000 after more than a dozen years of vacancy and demolished the Cinema.
Final ad July 30, 1997 - although the AMC Volusia 8 had already closed on July 27, 1997 with these same shows.
The 1910’s era Palace Theatre #1 installed sound in 1928 to remain viable. It closed on June 19, 1940 with “The Farmer’s Daughter" after some 30 years of service. The equipment was undoubtedly moved to the larger, 700-seat New Palace Theatre which opened for Mr. Grengs on July 1, 1940 with “Typhoon.”
Palace Theatre #2 was denied its 80th birthday celebration to the COVID-19 pandemic. But under new operators, it continued with first-run Hollywood films beginning late in 2024.
The Cross River Shopping Center was announced in 1969 to be constructed at 20 North Salem Road, Cross River, NY 10518. In the third iteration of the still unapproved plaza in 1971, it was announced that a 350-seat, 4,200 square foot single-screen, fully automated Jerry Lewis Cinema would join D'Agostino’s Grocery and Chase Bank as the first tenants.
By the time the Cross River Shopping Center was ready, Jerry Lewis Cinema and Network Cinema Corporation had already megaflopped and was in bankruptcy. D'Ags opened first with its supermarket followed by the non-Jerry Lewis now United General Cross RIver Cinema launching April 11, 1973 with “A Separate Peace” and “The Son of Lassies.” The first 1,000 adults got what you’d expect at the opening - a free disposable cigarette lighter. United General was sued and it, too, went out of business and the theater closed. A second operator went into independent operation as the Cross River Cinema before closing on November 30, 1976.
On October 7, 1977, the venue got decidedly trippy new operators Mel and Jeri Barboff complete with a pop art logo and some matching midnight repertory films including Magical Mystery Tour, Pink Floyd Concert Movie, Heavy Traffic, Yellow Submarine, The Harder They Come, and others under the name of the Cross River Repertory Cinema. The cinema had operated for around four years prior to them and, according the new operators, already had broken projection gear and 50 broken seats out of 350. Makes one question the United General workmanship.
The Barboffs also mixed in cult classics from the 1930s. Improvisational dance troupes were featured sporadically in the lobby as part of the pre-show. Leopard skin Victorian sofa and a hand painted sky ceiling were in the lobby as well regularly-schedule yoga classes. The concession stand featured herbal teas along with dried fruits and frozen yogurt before that had really taken off. But the Barboffs closed after just nine months on July 9, 1978.
On August 4, 1978, the venue was taken on by Florin-Creative and they converted it back to mainstream, contemporary fare. They folded at the end of lease on September 30, 1981 (though advertising some unplayed dates in the first days of October).
Florin-Creative likely got very favorable leasing terms reopening as a second-run, discount house on June 17, 1982. And they closed it again on Feb. 2, 1984 with “The Man Who Loved Women.” The showing of “All the Right Moves” was cancelled. The space was converted for other retail purposes as diminutive, single-screen theaters were well out of favor in the multiplex era of cinema exhibition.
The New Palace Theatre (Palace Theatre #2) launches here on July 1, 1940 with “Typhoon” replacing the original Palace Theatre that had its own 30 year run. The Palace theaters have had a legendary run of more than 110 years.
Chuck’s claim of a South Main Cameo Theatre can certainly stand as contributed by him. But checking the facts and looking at the photo - I’d say neither the address nor the depicted building is quite accurate. And the dates provided in the Chuck submitted entry are simply guessy.
Providing what I think is accurate below (but attributed in any way shape or form to Chuck’s name as perhaps I am the one in error). There were two Cameo Theater locations and two Dixie Theater locations.
The Dixie Electric Theatre opened on April 11, 1908 as one of the first dedicated nickelodeons in Madisonville. The second Dixie Theatre was in improved digs at 25 West Center Street (that should have been the address of this entry). Ben Eskind took it on in 1917. E. W. Dozier and F.M. Holeman’s Cameo Theatre (#1) was across the street at 24 West Center. They also operated the Garrick Theatre, locally. But it was here at Eskind’s Dixie that ran into problems when the Madisonville City Council was against its integrated policy in 1925. Operator Eskind remodeled the house so it has a balcony for African American patrons and its main floor for White patrons. It relaunched as the Kentucky Theatre on May 19, 1926 with Syd Chaplin in “The Man on the Box.” On June 12, 1929, Eskind added sound to remain commercially viable with Al Jolson in “The Singing Fool.” Eskind suffered a stroke and David Eskind took it on.
David Eskind ordered new leather seats and a new sound system improving the venue under the banner: The New Kentucky Theatre: “Home of the Hits" in 1931. Dozier bought out Holeman and formed the Capitol Amusement Company. It reopened the silent-era Cameo with sound on January 23, 1931 hoping to undermine business here at the Kentucky Theatre. But Capitol simply bought out the Kentucky moving the Cameo across the street to here.
The Kentucky Theatre was renamed the Cameo Theatre (“#2”) on December 31, 1931 with “Safe in Hell.” Cameo Theatre #1 was retired becoming a retail store. Cameo #2 was likely operating on a new 25-year leasing agreement. Tony Sudekum’s Crescent Amusement - in operation since 1907 - bought out the Capitol folks in 1932. Cameo #2’s audi was gutted by fire on January 17, 1937 destroying the auditorium but leaving the venue structurally intact. Crescent Amusement rebuilt the venue with a streamline moderne sensibility at its reopening on December 21, 1939 with “The Llano Kid.”
Cameo #2 closed on October 7, 1956 with “The Road to Denver” and “IT Came from Beneath the Sea.” It was razed in 1976 after serving as a house of worship briefly and a consistent home to rummage sales before its final stint as home to a print shop.
Cameo Theatre #2 Take 2 - The auditorium of the Cameo was destroyed in January of 1937… but almost three years later… it is rebuilt and relit as the Cameo.
Operator Eskind remodeled the Dixie Theatre so it has a balcony for African American patrons and the main floor for White patrons. It relaunched as the Kentucky Theatre on May 19, 1926 with Syd Chaplin in “The Man on the Box.”
Cameo Theatre #1 across the street
June 19, 1981 transition to the Martin Four.
694 seats
Demolished in 1977
It operated as a movie house until 1976 with “Sasquatch” its last advertised movie on March 8, 1976 It was a live venue for a period, as well.
The New Little Theatre replaces the littler Little Theatre on November 18, 1936 with “Tell No Tales.”
The Nu Vu Drive-In closed on July 31, 1979 at the end of its 25 year leasing agreement with “Take Down.” The screen was taken down on August 4, 1980.
The pride of San Juan County, the San Juan Theatre opened on August 23, 1946 with “Duffy’s Tavern.” As of the 2020s, it is a second-run theatre showing Hollywood hits within a month of their original release date.
In the background is the Boulevard Theatre