Valley Theater
7617 Reading Road,
Cincinnati,
OH
45237
7617 Reading Road,
Cincinnati,
OH
45237
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Louis Wiethe chose Kelly Green,Gray,and Yellow for his ushers and staff when this venue opened.
The theater is Celeberties Banquet Rooms according to the City Directory of 2010.
Did Lou Jr work at the theater? I taped my grandfather telling some of his life, but he got too emotional and didn’t want to go on. Can I ask you about him sometime? Are you in Cincinnati?
Hi, I remember Mr. Wiethe, along with Lou Jr. and Ed Wiethe very well.
I would love to have more information on the history or any memories people may have of this or my grandfather’s other theaters! Jenni Wiethe Cornell
I somehow saved a CINCINNATI paper because of all the theatre ads YOU DON’T SEE ANYMORE! I know its strange to save a old paper.
BTW Mike, your really into OHIO theatres now,what did you do find a new book?
Showed THAT ENTERTAINMENT at the LOEWS CRESCENT did not do much business I believe it ran 2 weeks.
On August 9 1974 the VALLEY Cinema was playing “THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT” rated G. Matinees Daily .with no passes.They even ran a midnight how on this movie. It was run by MID STATES CINEMAS.
I do apologize for mispelling Mr Wiethe’s name it really is Wiethe, not Weithe.
The Valley theater closed for good on Sept.3,1985, I don’t know when it had become a two screen house, but it closed its days as a $2 for Adults and $1 for childrens venue.
The Valley Theater was built by F&Y Building Services out of Columbus,Ohio in 1949. Weithe’s other cinemas were the Westwood Th.,in Cincinnati,the Bond in Bond Hill,the Roselawn in Cincinnati,the Jackson Th. in Cincy,the Andulas in St. Bernard,Ohio. In Kentucky the Ludlow Th. in Ludlow,the Derby Th. in Latonia,after his Latonia Th. burned in 1939 he rebuilt it as the Kentucky Th. In 1941 he erected the Bard Th. in Louisville , a very busy fellow this Weithe.
Mr Weithe was the owner of the Mt. Healthy Drive-In and also the Kentucky Theater in Latonia, Kentucky.
In 1962 ,Cincinnati Theaters ,a holding company subleased the Valley Theater from Weithe and continued to run reserved seat road shows. Later Louis Weithe became President of the Fort Lauderdale Symphony in Florida. Cincinnati Theaters Company had a 13 house movie chain in 1962 which included the Keith’s Theater on Walnut Street in downtown Cincinnati. The Keiths never became an RKO house much to my amazement.It must have always been an independatly owned theater,surprisingly since all the downtown first run houses in the 30,40,50,60’s were RKO controlled. Perhaps someone can explain this oddity?
This was one of eight houses controlled by Louis Wiethe and certainly his biggest achievement. Lou Weithe died at age 92 in Florida in 2002. The Valley Theater featured road shows in its earliest days, I can remember seeing,“My Fair Lady”‘there with a packed house not long after it was released. The Valley had a stage for small variety acts and accomidations were included for early TV transmittion if it was going to be ulitized. The stage had two curtains in front of the movie screen, one rose vertically and the other horizontally. Weithe sold the Valley Th. in 1962 to Harold Poe, but Lou retained a lease on the Theater to continue running movies.