The Florida Theatre in the mid-’40s.
Work is underway to transform the former Vero Theatre in Historic Downtown Vero Beach into the 650-seat Center for the Performing Arts at Theatre Plaza. In the spring of 2004 the new venue will offer performance space for professional entertainment, education outreach and performing arts programs for our community and be complementary to existing theatres in Vero Beach.
The original Vero Theatre showed movies, complete with pipe organ accompaniment — quite an attraction when it was built in 1924 in a town whose population numbered 1,500. Later, the theatre’s name was changed to the Florida Theatre. It was remodeled in 1968 and by 1985 the Florida Theatre had shown its last movie. Ask anyone who grew up in Vero Beach what Friday and Saturday nights were like on 14th Avenue when the theatre was in operation. This was the hot spot in town.
Read the entire article in the September 2003 issue
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