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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Great website, Harvey. I also saved Miami movie ad clippings as a kid and you brought back some great memories. I later worked for an agency that placed many exploitation ads which were often censored by the Miami Herald.
Thank you for the kind words, Al. I'mn intrigued about the job you had at that agency. Maybe one day you could tell the tale?
The Dixie was already operating in 1949. It became the Rio in 1965 and closed in 1979.
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.