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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The Fairmount was a “very classy” nabe showing second run and some art house fare. The booth was (2) Motiograph AAA, Motiograph-Hall lamps, Motiograph/RCA sound, Motiograph/Altec Stereo. I remember they used a “very long” Zeiss Anamorphic Lens. The operators were Warren Covell and his son.
Here is a pic of the marquee
www.maxxgen.org/fairmount/Image2.JPG
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.