Carousel Cinemas

The Carousel was on Reading Road, across the street from a similarly named (but not co-owned) motel, the Carrousel Inn. It had a beautiful big room capable of running 70mm - I saw STAR TREK IV and other movies in there. I believe in the '70's they built a second screen adjacent to the big room, making the complex a twin. In the smaller room I saw the '80's revivals of VERTIGO and THE RESCUERS: there was a pretty girl named Wendy I had a crush on who worked there during that time. Alas, no romance blossomed. :(

Not too far from this location was another theatre that I have yet to see get a page at this site: the Valley. I only went there a few times as a child and have a hazy memory of it's layout, but I suspect it was a single screen that was doubled in the '70's. Any former Roselawn residents out there who can update?

Hello meheuck ;Try checking out the Valley Th. in Roselawn,Ohio I've just entered ,think you might find some interest in this, and oh yes I'm a Cincinnatian. Until soon,Hank

I remember seeing the 70's disaster film Earthquake here (in Sensurround of course). The place had a large lobby where the next audience could wait to enter the theater for the next showing. You could feel the rumbles in the lobby while you waited to go in. Nice childhood memory for me.

Can anyone pin down a better address for this theatre? From Google Earth, I think I have it located at about 8036 Reading Road, but I can not be certain. Does anyone have the exact location?

Carousel's Theater address was 8000 Reading Road in Cincinnati,in a suburb known as Roselawn. Mid States Theatre Corp owned the venue until 1984,having constructed it in l968 as a single screen and twinning it in the 1970's. The largest of the screens seated over 800 patrons.

This one also needs the address updated at given on 2/23/09.