Cameo Theatre
Pacific Avenue,
Santa Cruz,
CA
95060
Pacific Avenue,
Santa Cruz,
CA
95060
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The Cameo Theatre is first listed in the 1928 edition of the Film Daily Yearbook, but with no seating capacity given. However, the Cameo is mentioned in the Santa Cruz Evening News of December 15, 1925, which said the new house was to open that night. The Cameo boasted something called an Orthophonic Victrola, a Leatherby electric piano, and a soundproof cry room where parents could take squalling children and still watch the show. I think this is the earliest instance of a cry room I’ve yet come across.
The 1929 Film Daily Yearbook listing gives the Cameo’s seating capacity as 400. This would certainly jibe with the size of the auditorium structure which I recall behind the commercial block portion of the building.