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The Jewel Theatre was a neighborhood theatre on St. Clair Avenue between Eddy Road and Shaw Avenue. It was opened by 1924 when it was operated by the Ohio Amusement Co. It was closed in the mid-1950’s, one of many theatres that lost the battle to survive in the face of the competition presented by television. I recall my mother attending ...
The Grand under new operators became the Jewel Theater on November 26, 1908. Ben Wheeler took on the Jewel which was destroyed by a fire as a result of the flood making March 20, 1913 its last day of operation.
- Apollo Theatre – Oberlin. Opened in 1913, this early Art Deco theatre was one of the first cinemas to show “talkies”, period slang for films of sound.
- Athena Cinema – Athens. Originally opened as The Majestic, the Athena Cinema is a fixture of downtown Athens.
- By-Jo Theatre – Germantown. Located just a short drive from Dayton in the Village of Germantown, the quaint single-screen By-Jo Theatre is a must-visit cinema.
- Bryan Theatre – Bryan. Until recent years, you could have visited most communities in Ohio and found a downtown cinema similar to the Bryan Theatre. While many of those cinemas are now shuttered, the Bryan has continue to entertain patrons since 1939.
It said that John A. Schwalm and John H. Broomball, directors of the Jewel Photoplay Company, opened the Jewel on May 1, 1909, and the house closed in March, 1926. The Jewel Photoplay Company had taken over operation of the Grand Theatre in 1918, and had built and opened the Rialto Theatre in 1920.
Mar 2, 2009 · In July of 2008, my good friend and fellow explorer Sherman Cahal, moved into the Emery Center Apartments and discovered that the Emery theater was adjoined to his building. After speaking with his landlord, we were able to gain access to photograph the first floor of the theatre.
By May 16, 1969, 55 East State Company was no longer willing to wait any longer for a theater savior. Jean Whallon, wife of Evan Whallon ( who was conductor of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra) called John W Galbreath, a renown community leader, in a last ditch effort to save the Ohio.
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Longitudinal section of Evansdale Movie Theater. Imagined: Orchard Theater. A true mystery among all the theaters in our architectural collections is the Orchard Theater, created by Stephen M. Jokel, an architect of Toledo.
