MOVIES - Dec. 3, 1991
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A Final Cameo Appearance: The Cameo Theater in downtown Los Angeles, said to be the oldest continuously operating movie theater in the country, apparently shut down for good at 4 a.m. Monday after its usual quadruple-bill of action films. Though older theaters that were originally built for vaudeville are still in existence, the 775-seat Cameo had been showing movies since its 1910 opening as Clune’s Broadway Theatre. “We feel very sad about it,” said Metropolitan Theater spokesman Jon Olivan, who noted that the Cameo--in recent years a late-night home for the homeless--had been operating at a loss for some time.
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