Paramount Theater
814 Main Street,
Rochester,
IN
46975
814 Main Street,
Rochester,
IN
46975
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The Paramount Theater opened in 1915 and closed in 1925. Today, a B & B Mens Wear store is located in this building.
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Can anyone explain why the Paramount Theatre lasted only ten years? Or is there an error in the dates in the introduction?
The dates are correct. 1915-1925
The Paramount was a small store front theatre, couldn’t compete with the talking motion picture theatres that were opeing in Richmond and no finanaces by the owner to convert to talkies.
This article from the Rochester Sentinal says that Charles Krieghbaum bought the Paramount Theatre after he arrived in Rochester in 1922. In 1924 he opened the much larger Char-Bell Theatre, now called the Times Theatre. The article doesn’t say whether or not he continued to operate the Paramount for the last year of its life or if he sold it to another operator.
Part one of the Sentinal article about Rochester’s movie houses says that the Paramount replaced the My Show Theatre. Presumably the My Show occupied the same storefront as the Paramount (now the north half of the B&B Men’s Wear store), but the article doesn’t specify that.
The Paramount Theatre was mentioned in the February 5, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World, which said that brothers Clyde and Sydney Wilson had bought the house from Ray Blausser. The Wilsons had also bought another Rochester house, the Kai-Gee Theatre, from Roy Shanks.