Cameo Theatre
115-119 South Orange Avenue,
South Orange,
NJ
07079
115-119 South Orange Avenue,
South Orange,
NJ
07079
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Roger- I compared your photo to an old one in which The Cameo appears. If you go by the facade, they appear to be the same. I was always told that the gap between the buildings was where The Cameo had stood. Growing up on Valley & First Streets, The Famous was on one side – The Village Pantry on the other. Do you know what was in that location?
Quite clearly the lobby building and at least the shell of the auditorium are still there. http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/31444.html
The Cameo was destroyed by fire in the early 1950s. The building was torn down.
When I went to junior high school in South Orange, the science department had a skeleton that was found under the stage of the Cameo theater.
They never solved the murder, but it sure was cool to touch a real skeleton in 7th grade science class.
Teresa Wright had told me that she would visit the Cameo often, as a young girl, when she had lived in the area.
Listed in the 1951 FDY as having 937 seats.