Paramount Theatre

Hamill Avenue,
Clarksburg, WV 26301

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on October 22, 2021 at 9:09 pm

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.

Nessa
Nessa on October 22, 2021 at 2:11 pm

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.

Nessa
Nessa on October 22, 2021 at 2:03 pm

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.