Bijou Dream
Main Street E.,
Rochester,
NY
14614
Main Street E.,
Rochester,
NY
14614
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From Rochester NY a postcard view of Main Street along with the Bijou Dream.
I have a photo postcard showing the Bijou Dream. It is a night shot captioned: INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION ROCHESTER ‘09 R.P.S.Co. The postmark is OCT 15 1909. It looks as though there is a “light show” celebration, with the neighboring buildings and streets trimmed with electric lights. The Bijou “ADMISSION 5c” sign is illuminated. The McFarlin business/building is next door and there is one more building at the corner of Main Street and Saint Paul Street.
That postcard view (I have a copy of that postcard, postmarked in 1908) clearly shows the Granite Building which is still standing, and McFarlin Clothing right next door. Doing a little research shows that McFarlin Clothing was at 110 – 116 East Main St., so the Bijou Dream stood just next to the present-day hotel on the east bank of the river. A Sunday, March 2, 1913 article in the Democrat and Chronicle says that the Bijou Dream was scheduled to “show its last thriller” before becoming a cigar store.
From the early 1900s a postcard view of the Bijou Dream in Rochester.
I have a picture of this theatre. I was in Rochester for a few days and the city has at least 100 pictures of old Rochester on many windows of many buildings downtown. I snapped a pic of Bijou Dream’s poster, and its building was 6 stories tall.