Cinema

957 South Clinton Avenue,
Rochester, NY 14620

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Originally built in 1914 with a dirt floor. The 1941 edition of Film Daily Yearbook gives a seating capacity for the Clinton Theatre as 540. It was renovated in 1949 and was given an Art Deco style facade.

Now known as the Cinema, it is now the oldest, continuously run, single-screen theater in Rochester, NY.

Contributed by Bill Wynkoop

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lostmemory
lostmemory on July 3, 2006 at 10:56 am

This is a more recent photo of the Cinema theater.

lostmemory
lostmemory on March 17, 2007 at 4:01 pm

A recent night view of the Cinema can be seen here.

lostmemory
lostmemory on August 7, 2007 at 12:15 pm

Here is a close-up view of the Cinema marquee.

lostmemory
lostmemory on January 17, 2008 at 10:10 am

Another photo can be seen here.

JMAX
JMAX on February 23, 2008 at 9:58 am

Since the theatre business is stuggling we encourage the owner of the theatre to host more special events like Indian movie screening. I am in Rochester I tried to contact the owner of the theatre, she is very poor in communication. I called and left messages many times, emailed NO RESPONSE. This is not good. We need to try hard to keep this business going on.

Thanks

lostmemory
lostmemory on September 13, 2008 at 1:04 pm

This was the Cinema in 2005.

lostmemory
lostmemory on April 16, 2009 at 1:32 pm

The year given for this photo is 1985.

DavidDynamic
DavidDynamic on February 9, 2012 at 11:31 pm

Attractive simple deco but I could not tolerate the way that the titles are scrunched on the reader board—was almost to think that it was a limiting design fault except that there is a picture with proper spacing. Drivers should not have to try to decipher the marquee titles.

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