Rialto Theatre

The Rialto was still running in early 1930, before the full force of the depression kicked in. This is from the January 5 issue of Film Daily: “Youngstown — The Rialto, Joe Trunk’s house, has Tone-O-Graph installed, as well as the Uptown, owned by the same exhibitor.”

Saddly, aside from the Uptown and the Newport along with the Market Street Theater we could not find and photos or detailed information about the other theaters that were located on Market Street other than locations so we do know that they were not one theater that went by several names. The fact that they all ran ads on the theater page of the Vindicator shows us that they were indeed seperate theaters. For those who do not know much about Youngstown, Market Street was a major business street as well as an entertainment destination with many restaurants, night Clubs as well as retail stores and car dealerships right up to the 1960’s when it began to go into decline.