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Cameo Cinema: Now<\/p><\/div>\n
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First Theater: Turner Hall, ca 1912<\/p><\/div>\n
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Then: G&G Theater<\/p><\/div>\n
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The first Goodman & Galewsky (G & G) Theater was housed in Turner Hall where Lyman Park is now.\u00a0 In 1913, the St. Helena Star<\/em> announced the opening of F.T. Mooney\u2019s new business building further south on Main Street. It was built of reinforced concrete with a frontage of 78 feet by 120 feet deep and was designed for theater purposes. The original theater boasted 400 seats and 150 opera chairs, a modern stage, and 2 standing sets.\u00a0 Goodman & Galewsky leased the theater and it was open every evening. \u00a0In 1915, it was renamed the Liberty Theater and its first film was D.W. Griffith\u2019s epic Birth of a Nation<\/em>.\u00a0 Showings of many other Griffith films were so successful that the 5-cent ticket price expanded to 10 cents, thus ending the era of the Nickelodeon Movie Theater in St. Helena.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.91″ background_layout=”light”]<\/p>\n Over the years, successive owners have renamed the theater as the Roxy and then the Liberty again.\u00a0 In 1996, when Charlotte Wagner took over the lease, she performed a serious upgrade to the facilities and the equipment.\u00a0 She renamed it the Cameo Cinema. When Cathy Buck assumed the lease in 2008, the Cameo entered the 21st<\/sup> century.\u00a0\u00a0 It now offers a state of the art digital projection system and the Dolby Atmos sound system, providing a world-class movie experience for its patrons.\u00a0 The Cameo Cinema is one of the oldest continuously running single screen theaters in the United States.<\/p>\n On either side of the original theater was a room available for other businesses.\u00a0 There are now four storefronts occupying this wide building. Over the years, occupants have been an electric company, a real estate and insurance broker, a bank, a telegraph office and a grocery store.\u00a0 Now Daisy Clothing Boutique, Yvonne Rich Real Estate, Patina Fine Jewelry, and St. Helena Real Estate occupy the four storefronts.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_map _builder_version=”3.0.91″ mouse_wheel=”on” mobile_dragging=”on” use_grayscale_filter=”off” address=”1332 Main St, St Helena, CA 94574, USA” address_lat=”38.5048219″ address_lng=”-122.4692326″]<\/p>\n [et_pb_map_pin _builder_version=”3.0.91″ title=”1332 Main Street St. Helena CA” pin_address=”1332 Main St, St Helena, CA 94574, USA” pin_address_lat=”38.5048219″ pin_address_lng=”-122.4692326″ \/]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_map][et_pb_post_nav _builder_version=”3.0.91″ prev_text=”%title” next_text=”%title” in_same_term=”on” show_prev=”on” show_next=”on” saved_tabs=”all” title_font_size=”20px” title_font=”|700|||||||” title_text_color=”#207703″ global_module=”148″ \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2019s Cameo Theater originally started as the Goodman & Galewsky Theater at Turner Hall. It was built with 400 seats plus Opera chairs. It was renamed in 1915 and has undergone several name changes with different owners, eventually becoming the Cameo Theater of today. There are 4 storefronts surrounding the theater as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-street-tour"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenahistorytour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenahistorytour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenahistorytour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenahistorytour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenahistorytour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenahistorytour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenahistorytour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenahistorytour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenahistorytour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenahistorytour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}