Cameo Theatre

Listed as part of Independent Theater Service, Inc. in the 1956 Film Daily Yearbook.

DEALS IN NEW JERSEY; Motion Picture Theatre in Jersey City Among Parcels Sold

NY Times October 5, 1938

The Cameo motion-picture theatre, a one and two-story building at 225-237 Ocean Avenue, Jersey City, on a plot 172 by 127 feet, was sold by the Saooky Realty Corporation to the Broadlawn Realty Company. The sale was subject to four mortgages totaling $212,000.

Looking at the view of 223 Ocean Avenue on Google Maps, it looks like the theater building is being used to sell office furniture. The adjoining business is Peckman’s Pharmacy, which may be using part of the old theater building for storage. I don’t think 1485 people could fit in the small furniture building.

The current store in the front is selling office supplies. The drugstore appears to be gone now, -the theatre’s storefront is the only one left on this side of the block – all else is parking. But you can see the auditorium in back. people would walk straight back and turn turn right to enter the auditorium. From the air it looks big enough to seat at least 1,000. There is a small window in the side wall of the auditorium so it may be gutted inside. Then again they may have simply punched a small hole in the wall. The side that’s the back of the lobby is still complete – no windows.

The Cameo Theatre in Jersey City was set to open the following night, according to an announcement in the January 16, 1927, issue of The Film Daily.