Wick-Willo Twin

Wickliffe isn’t exactly tiny—it would have had 15-20K people when this opened. The theater was one of the shortlived Jerry Lewis Cinemas. Probably lasted a year or so as that. The auditoriums were very small and cheaply done. I think it ran bargain second or third run features both as a Jerry Lewis and definitely as the Wick-Willo.

The Jerry Lewis franchises were franchises built around small, standardized layouts and automated systems that didn’t always perform as advertised. The earlier Jerry Lewis Cinemas were a littl lesss bare bones than this one.

Jim! I am in St. Louis. Where are you?

I just found this website and wanted to let you know that the onwers first name was “Angelo” – Not sure if he was an onwer or the first owner. He just took over the building again and is doing a multi-million $ remodel. The building has had the same decor from it’s first renovation into office spaces. You can still see where the 2 screens were and the concession stand, which is now an office.
I know this because my office was located inside for years.

Nigel: Yes, I am.

It would be great if you could remember or find out, Dave; this place always struck me as one of the oddest theatres ever built, and it came and went very quickly. I rather suspect that some people who lived in the area never knew it was there. It was so small with very limited parking; one could easily drive right by it and and not even see it unless one was really looking for it. It appeared on the Greater Cleveland scene roughly about the same time as the World East and World West and I have wondered if the operator was trying to emulate those small cinemas as in many ways the set up was similar.