Cameo Theatre
1193 Clinton Avenue North,
Rochester,
NY
14621
1193 Clinton Avenue North,
Rochester,
NY
14621
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A single screen theatre located on Clinton Avenue in Rochester, New York. A great neighborhood theatre that opened May 15, 1926 with Gloria Swanson in “Stage Struck”. From May 1, 1935 it was taken over by the Schine Circuit Inc. It was closed May 29, 1952 with Larry Parks in “Love is Better than Ever” & Wendell Corey in “The Wild Blue Yonder”.
It became a furniture warehouse until May 1972 and was soon demolished.
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Howard G. Malley
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Thanks for listing this theatre Howard. My grandmother used to tell me about going to the movies here, and I remember the closed down theatre building sitting on Clinton Ave. up until is destruction.
Howard,
we used to go to cameo theater together
Rich Freedman
I remember reading somewhere, perhaps in the Theatre Historial Society’s publication “Marquee” many years ago, of how a security guard accidentally turned on the vertical sign and someone was able to snap a picture of it. This was around 1965 and supposedly the vertical hadn’t been lit up since 1949 when the theatre closed. I’m sad, but not surprised, to read here that it has been torn down.
The Cameo Theatre opened May 15, 1926 with “Stage Struck.” Schine took on the Cameo on May 1, 1936. It positioned it as a sub-run third tier theatre in 1940. Listing end May 29, 1952 after a double feature of “Love is Better Than Ever” and “Wild Blue Yonder.” The Cameo was used a furniture warehouse thereafter until May of 1972 when its days were numbered.