Cameo Theatre
1060 Mount Vernon Avenue,
Columbus,
OH
43203
1060 Mount Vernon Avenue,
Columbus,
OH
43203
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Previously operated by: J. Real Neth Theaters Co.
Firms: Dawson & Holbrook
Previous Names: Vernon Theater, Neth's Cameo Theatre
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The Vernon Theater opened on April 11, 1914. On December 8, 1928 the name was changed to Neth’s Cameo Theatre. It was closed on September 26, 1962 with Sal Ponti in “Atlantis:The Lost Continent” & Robert Taylor in “Saddle the Wind”.
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Thanks for the info.
if the Pythian Theatre ever showed movies, can you enter it into CinemaTreasures?
Here is a view of Mt. Vernon Avenue, circa 1949:
http://tinyurl.com/yk56s46
I have an address for the CAMEO theatre as 1060 Mt. Vernon Avenue. The 1949 picture noted above looks to be facing east at approximately the corner of Mt. Vernon and 20th Street.
Here is a photo of the interior of the Vernon Theatre from the magazine Popular Mechanics, June, 1926.
1955 must have been the year the name was changed. Boxoffice of March 19 that year said that CinemaScope had been installed at the Cameo in Columbus, making it the last theater in the J. Real Neth circuit to be modernized.
When did it close and why?
The CAMEO closed on 9/26/1962, with its final features being ATLANTIS LOST CONTINENT & SADDLE THE WIND.
Again, I can find NO proof that this theatre was ever called the COMET. I’ve checked newspaper listings from 1946 to 1962, and this theatre was always called the CAMEO. Does anyone have any evidence of the name COMET?
The Vernon Theatre was originally a project of the Dusenbury brothers. This item is from the February 7, 1914, issue of Motography:
A follow-up item appeared in the May 2 issue of the same publication: An early report on the project appeared in the September 13, 1913, issue of The American Contractor: Dawson & Holbrook also designed the downtown Columbus house that was long known as the Knickerbocker Theatre, and might have planned the conversion of the old Grand Opera House on State Street into a movie theater around 1914.The Vernon theater was opened by J. W. & W. J. Dusenbury on April 11th, 1914. Grand opening ad posted.