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  • <p>Prior to 1955, the Garden Theare was known as the Winter Garden Theatre. Here in a 1949 photo, children are just beginning to line up for the Saturday matinee showing.</p>
  • <p>Interior of Utah Theatre, August, 2017, before the performance of REX began.</p>
  • <p>The former Cameo Theatre’s replicated rooftop sign was lit for the first time on January 23, 2015. This was the first time a rooftop sign had been lit on the theatre building in 66 years.</p>
  • <p>Cameo sign restored 75 years after opening</p>
  • <p>This is a poor quality picture of Orlando’s Roxy Theatre. It is a photocopy of a picture in the ORLANDO SENTINEL, dating from 1938. The Roxy had a marquee that was the width of the entire block upon which it was located on West Church Street.</p>
  • <p>New York premiere engagement opened February 18th, 1953</p>
  • <p>The Cameo is pictured as it appeared in a November 27, 1940 ORLANDO MORNING SENTINEL ad documenting the grand opening on the same date.</p>
  • <p>State Theatre, Cocoa, FL, 1940s</p>
  • <p>This is an ORLANDO MORNING SENTINEL advertisement documenting the opening of the Cameo Theatre on November 27, 1940.</p>
  • <p>Photo from the 50’s shows TV repair store next to what was the Cameo. After the theatre closed, IBM bought the building and turned it into office space, adding a floor, a lobby area to the side of the building and covering the art deco facade and adding the IBM logo.</p>
  • <p>April 18th, 1926 grand opening ad</p>
  • <p>Inside the auditorium</p>
  • <p>This is Walter Kimble, pictured at the Grand Theatre organ, in the 1920s. He began his theatre organ career in Titusville, Florida, and assumed the organist post at the Grand after he moved to Orlando. He was also the organist for the Orlando Municipal Auditorium, now the Bob Carr Center for the Performing Arts.</p>
  • <p>September 25th, 1953</p>
  • <p>Newman projection booth at the grand opening</p>