Shea's Theatre
70 W. Main Street,
Geneva,
OH
44041
70 W. Main Street,
Geneva,
OH
44041
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Address is 70 West Main Street, the building is now used as Geneva Civic Center.
The January 3, 1932 issue of Film Daily said: “Geneva, O.— The Liberty is now called Shea’s.” I think Shea’s must have bought the Liberty, which dated back to at least 1918, and then built a new theater a couple of years later. In FDY’s through the late 1930s both Shea’s and the Liberty are listed, but the Liberty is always listed as closed.
A 1947 ad for a Stafford’s Jewelry and Music Store at 52 West Main Street carries the tag line “Three doors down from Shea’s Theatre.” 52 W. Main is a parking lot now, but what would be three doors up the block at 72 W. Main is a large, red brick building that looks like it could have been built in the 1930s. The front section is fairly low, but behind it is a taller, rectangular building that is just the right size and shape to be a theater auditorium. It now houses the Geneva Community Center. I suspect that this was Shea’s Geneva Theatre.
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