Rialto Theatre
983 Jackson Avenue,
Memphis,
TN
38107
983 Jackson Avenue,
Memphis,
TN
38107
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The Rialto Theatre was opened in 1926 by the Maceri-Zerilla partnership. It was a neighbourhood theatre located on Jackson Avenue at Decatur Street. A blueprint in the public library collection shows a rendering from 1934 which is labelled Lamar Theatre, but matches film footage of the Rialto Theatre. From what I found it closed around 1958 and the building is now an auto repair shop.
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Chuck, Vincent Astor
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I took this photo on 7/4/07: View link
Here’s a better link to the photo I took of the old Rialto: View link
I just posted a new photo. This is a drawing of a theatre addition from the Memphis and Shelby County Board of Adjustment now in the Memphis and Shelby County Room of the Memphis Public Library and Information Center. Used with permission.
It is titled as a prospective addition to the Lamar Theatre but it is not the addition that was actually built. It is dated 1934 and greatly resembles the only image I have ever seen of the Rialto Theatre on Jackson in newsreel footage.
I think the Rialto closed as a theater in 1958. It it wasn’t then, it was soon thereafter.