Fairmount Theatre
20601 Fairmount Boulevard,
Cleveland,
OH
44118
20601 Fairmount Boulevard,
Cleveland,
OH
44118
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This theatre, in the Fairmount Circle area of University Heights, opened in 1948 and closed in 1959. A Huntington Bank branch office is in the theatre building now.
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Toby Radloff
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Here is a pic of the marquee
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The 1955 Film Daily lists a Fairmount Theater at 20601 Fairmount Boulevard in Cleveland, Ohio. Seating was 1,624. Google also maps this address to Cleveland.
The Fairmount was featured in an ad for the American Seating Company’s Bodiform Theatre Chairs in the June 19, 1948 issue of Boxoffice Magazine. The caption to the photo of the auditorium identified the architect of the theater as George H. Burrows, of Cleveland.
The Fairmount Theatre actually opened in 1942, and was featured in a two-page spread in Boxoffice Magazine’s issue of September 12 that year. Architect George H. Burrows, also the designer of the Shaker and Telenews theaters in Cleveland, gave the Fairmount a Colonial exterior but used an Art Moderne style in the auditorium.
This is a 1948 photo of the Fairmount.
Could this be the auditorium of the Fairmount Theatre in a 1948 trade ad? Location is cited as Shaker Heights, which could be error: boxofficemagazine
Yes, that’s the Fairmount in the ad, with the wrong location in the caption. The two-page article about the Fairmount in Boxoffice of September 12, 1942, begins at this link. There’s another photo of the auditorium on the second page, showing the opposite wall from the one in the ad, but it’s a bit washed out.
The Fairmount’s auditorium was featured in this 1944 trade ad for General Electric lighting: boxofficemagazine
The Fairmount’s wide screen installation was featured on the cover of The Modern Theatre section in July, 1956: boxoffice
The article in Box Office Magazine dated Sept.12,1942 stated that the Fairmount did not have a balcony but was built so a 300 seat balcony could be added later. It was never added. Newer theaters such as the Vogue, Richmond and Mayland built after the Fairmount, probably meant that the balcony was not needed since the 1600 seats were enough to accommodate the audiences. The Fairmount closed before these other theaters did. I wonder if a decrease in attendance caused its demise? They seemed to have large crowds on Saturday evenings in the mid and late 50’s.