You mentioned that Wild Bill Hickok made a personal appearance at the Cameo Theater in Nov, 1940. Must have been some other old “Wild West” guy—Wild Bill Hickok was murdered in 1876.
I’ve driven past the Cameo in downtown SA—If I remember correctly, it looked pretty small.
I think the building you see there now is an interesting and really old structure that’s housed a variety of buisnesses over the years. It’s still there. The Laurel Theater was south of that building—the last time I drove past there I remember seeing parts of the theater’s foundation. When I was attending San Antonio Jr. College in ‘65,'66 & '67, I drove past it everyday. Now I go by there once every couple of years but I’ll try to swing by there this weekend to take another look.
Great theater on San Pedro Road a couple of miles south of the Olmos theater which is now a school of some sort. Hated to see the Laurel torn down years ago —went to alot of movies there. There and the Broadway (now a bank building) and the Woodlawn (on Fredericksberg Road) and the Josephine. San Antonio had a bunch of great “independent” single screen theaters. Downtown we had the Majestic (still standing with live plays and concerts), the Aztec (now closed), the Texas (closed), the State (long time closed) and the Prince (closed) and the Empire (both well known to myself and my high school classmates for the late 1950’s and early 1960’s nudie movies).
You mentioned that Wild Bill Hickok made a personal appearance at the Cameo Theater in Nov, 1940. Must have been some other old “Wild West” guy—Wild Bill Hickok was murdered in 1876.
I’ve driven past the Cameo in downtown SA—If I remember correctly, it looked pretty small.
I think the building you see there now is an interesting and really old structure that’s housed a variety of buisnesses over the years. It’s still there. The Laurel Theater was south of that building—the last time I drove past there I remember seeing parts of the theater’s foundation. When I was attending San Antonio Jr. College in ‘65,'66 & '67, I drove past it everyday. Now I go by there once every couple of years but I’ll try to swing by there this weekend to take another look.
Great theater on San Pedro Road a couple of miles south of the Olmos theater which is now a school of some sort. Hated to see the Laurel torn down years ago —went to alot of movies there. There and the Broadway (now a bank building) and the Woodlawn (on Fredericksberg Road) and the Josephine. San Antonio had a bunch of great “independent” single screen theaters. Downtown we had the Majestic (still standing with live plays and concerts), the Aztec (now closed), the Texas (closed), the State (long time closed) and the Prince (closed) and the Empire (both well known to myself and my high school classmates for the late 1950’s and early 1960’s nudie movies).