Paramount Theatre
Hamill Avenue,
Clarksburg,
WV
26301
Hamill Avenue,
Clarksburg,
WV
26301
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The Paramount Theatre in the North View section of Clarksburg was one of several small town West Virginia movie houses using that name during the silent era. It is not known if any of them were affiliated with Paramount Pictures or not.
The address given for the Clarksburg Paramount in a 1921 city directory was 614 Hammil [sic] Avenue, but that number no longer exists, nor are there any numbers that small on Hamill Avenue today. The most likely candidate to have been the Paramount Theatre is a single-story brick building with an arched front on the north side of Hamill Avenue in the 1900 block, but it isn’t certain that this was the theatre. The house was not listed in the Film Daily Yearbooks for 1926, so it had probably closed by then.
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I’m not sure of this address, there’s almost no commercial buildings at all on Hamill Avenue, though that one building on Hamill does look pretty theatrical. I found this photo in the WVU archives identified as Pike St. after a Thanksgiving snowstorm.
Okay, I’m 100% sure this is Pike St., the tallest building on the right is the Waldo Hotel and the buildings on the left are now all a parking lot.
The “Paramount” vertical sign in the photo elmorovivo uploaded probably didn’t belong to a theater. Film Daily Yearbooks from the period the photo dates from (it looks like the 1940s) didn’t list a house called the Paramount in Clarksburg. The Paramount listed on Hamill Avenue in the 1921 City Directory was likely a small, neighborhood house that was gone by the mid-1920s. The name Paramount has been (and is) used by many businesses other than theaters. In fact Clarksburg itself currently has company called Paramount Safety Supplies, though it was founded in 2019 so wouldn’t have anything to do with that sign from the 1940s.