Paramount Theatre
204 East Baltimore Street,
Jackson,
TN
38301
204 East Baltimore Street,
Jackson,
TN
38301
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Is there an old theatre operating today in downtown Jackson?
1983 photo of the Paramount Theatre.
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1983 photo of the Malco & Paramount side by side.
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1986 photo of the Paramount Theatre. It must have been a real job changing the marquee on the Paramount.
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1983 night photo of the Paramount, as you can see from the marquee the Paramount was operatd by Malco.
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1983 photo of the Auditorium of the Paramount Theatre.
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Wow, that night shot of the Paramount makes it look alive! Which is not how it looked in 1996:
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And here’s the Paramount and its neighbor, the Malco:
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Does anyone know what’s become of these two venues?
The area where the theatre once stood is one large parking lot.
This Paramount Theatre was a 1950-51 rebuild of the former State Theatre. The former Paramount Theatre a few doors up the street was renamed the Malco Theatre shortly before the new Paramount opened.
Nice shot of both theatres Kevin Dennis.
The marquee should have been used better.something that nice needs more than a title.
Aerial views show that this entire block is now a parking lot. The Paramount has been demolished, as comments above note.
The listed seating capacity of 2,600 for this house must be wrong. From the photos of the theater it’s clear that this building couldn’t have held that many seats— probably not even half that number.
The various photos showing the side wall of the Paramount reveal that the building was quite old. It dated from no later than the early 20th century. This genealogy page refers to “The Old Marlowe Theater, that is now the State Theater….” The Marlowe Theatre was listed in the the 1904-1905 edition of Julius Cahn’s guide as a 1,050-seat, ground-floor house. This photo of the Marlowe’s auditorium (dated 1934 by the New York Public Library) makes an interesting comparison with the Paramount’s remodeled auditorium (that’s the same photo Chuck linked to above.) The interior was obviously gutted, either when it was remodeled as the Paramount or earlier, when it was renamed the State.
Joe, I agree with you on the seat count, I have noticed in various articles with the seat count at 866 and 780 which would be more than likely the right count.