Rio Theatre
222 NE First Avenue,
Miami,
FL
33132
222 NE First Avenue,
Miami,
FL
33132
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I know little about this theatre except that it was located in downtown Miami and played double features during the 1950’s.
It continued into the 1980’s under the ownership of Wometco.
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was an assistant manager at rio theater in miami in 75. and yes the theater was a bit rundown then. I can almost smell the insides of the theater now as i think about it. life was so wonderful back them.
going to the theater and coming out of it, and the people. everything was so much alive there in downtown miami, fl.
A 1,000 seat Dixie Theater is listed for Miami in 1955.
The Dixie opened in 1948 and the architect was Robert E. Collins.
A couple of years after it opened, three photos of the Dixie ran in Boxoffice of May 5, 1951. It was a nice Art Moderne style theater built for the N.N. Bernstein circuit.
The theater’s name was changed from Dixie to Rio in 1965, according to Boxoffice of December 20 that year. Wometco was set to reopen the house at Christmas.
May 1980 Miami News article on the closing of The Rio here.
Scratch that. October 1980, not May.
It was the Dixie in 1962, run down and smelly by 1964.
Guarina, if you know the Rio you have so much more to share about Miami Cinemas. Please do share more details of your wonderful Miami movie experiences. We so want to know.
Dixie Theatre described in 1951 trade journal: boxoffice
The Rio was not a great place to go. The neighborhood surrounding it became really bad. The Rio was not on a main drag. After 1970 the streets that ran north & south in downtown were never great places to hang.