Valley Theater
7617 Reading Road,
Cincinnati,
OH
45237
7617 Reading Road,
Cincinnati,
OH
45237
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Closed 1983
Opened July 17th, 1949. Ad:
Here’s a new 4-page 50th anniversary FIDDLER ON THE ROOF retrospective featuring a roadshow playdate chronology and historian Q&A. The Valley’s lengthy run is mentioned in the piece.
Thanks, Joe! I’ll try it!
JenniWiethe: You can upload photos to Cinema Treasures. Click on “Photos” button above the photo at the top of this page. Scroll to the bottom of the subsequent page. Click “Add New Photo” button, and follow upload instructions. Articles might be impossible to read because Cinema Treasures resizes files, and the size displayed isn’t very large. Readability would depend on the size of your original file, and how much it had to shrink to fit CT’s maximum size.
Can someone recommend a good place to upload some photos and articles I would like to share?
Did the Valley ever show Windjammer in Cinemiracle on their TODD-AO curved screen back in the late 50’s? I can’t find it looking through old newspapers.
March 26th, 1975 grand opening ad as a twin is in the photo section.
July 19th, 1949 1st ad in photo section.
Dear Tinseltoes, I just found your comments and am so appreciative of your links to BoxOffice. I was a projectionist at the Valley Cinema from 1981-1983 when I was a teen. Such wonderful memories. I was so saddened when the theater closed. My mother still lives in the neighborhood, but boy has it changed.
Jennie Wiethe. If you want to keep our information more private, you can write to me at and I can also e-mail pictures to you of the Movie and Lou Wiethe. Maybe you can help me find the print of my Film “SWEET TALKER” that disappeared from the showing at the Ludlow Theater in about 1974. Ludlow asked me about showing it for their Anniversary Celebration. I don’t have a print. Bob Rehme was the distributor then with TRI STATE. I was there on the “Bob Braun Show” also.
Hi Jenni, SURPRISE!!!!! I was the Writer, Producer, Director,and Editor and built all the Sets for the Movie, “Little Laura and Big John” and Lou Wiethe was the Executive Producer beacuse he raised the budget for the Movie. It was filmed at Moberly Film Studios in Ft.Lauderdale, which I owned. I have still pictures and the POSTER on the wall in my office.I can tell you a lot about your grandfather. You can write to me.
I have a picture of my grandfather on an elephant in front of the theater for the opening of “Around the World in Eighty Days”.
70mm equipment was installed, initially to show “Around the World in Eighty Days,” in 1957.
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.