Kenmore Theatre
3021 Delaware Avenue,
Kenmore,
NY
14217
3021 Delaware Avenue,
Kenmore,
NY
14217
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Grand opening ad posted.
1/30/26 image added via Donald Knollā.
Buffalo architects Edwin P. Bacon and William C. Lurkey established their partnership in 1922.
The May 2, 1925, issue of The Moving Picture World said that the contract for the construction of the Kenmore Theatre had been let:
In 1936, the Kenmore Theatre became part of the Shea circuit, as was noted in the September 3 issue of The Film Daily: The only photo of the Kenmore Theatre I’ve been able to find is on this page of the Ken-Ton Bee web site, where it is partly seen in the background, obscured by a parade float.The Kenmore Theatre, designed by Bacon & Lurkey, opened on Jan.30,1926 with 1,556 seats. It was demolished June 1968.
Organ pipes from the Kenmore ,some of the pipes anyway, were bought and added to the Wurlitzer organ used at the Emery Theater in Cincinnati,Ohio in the 20 years that atos ran movies there in the 1980 and 1990’s.