Augustine Joseph Cianciolo of 178 Lombardy Road, the original owner of the Plaza Theater, Memphis' first shopping center theater, and a longtime show business figure here, died yesterday at his home after a long illness. He was 61. Swift Treadwell & Canale Funeral Directors has charge. Mr. Cianciolo inherited the old Rosemary and the Lucia-Ann theaters from his father, Mike Cianciolo. He later owned the Northgate and Rosewood theaters, the Poplar Plaza Bowling Lanes and the Lucia-Ann Night Club. He built the Plaza Theater in 1956. In the early 1950s he sold his theater interests to General Cinema Theaters. He was a communicant of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Agnes M. Cianciolo; a daughter, Mrs. Gina Marie C. Wooten, and two sons, Michael A. Cianciolo and Joseph M. Cianciolo, all of Memphis; five sisters, Mrs. Anne C. Angelo, Mrs. Virginia C. Palazolo, Miss Marguerite Cianciolo and Mrs. Rosemary C. Nickas, all of Memphis, and Mrs. Lucia C. Nafieh of Mason, Tenn., and five grandchildren. (Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, on January 8, 1983)
Augustine Joseph Cianciolo of 178 Lombardy Road, the original owner of the Plaza Theater, Memphis' first shopping center theater, and a longtime show business figure here, died yesterday at his home after a long illness. He was 61. Swift Treadwell & Canale Funeral Directors has charge. Mr. Cianciolo inherited the old Rosemary and the Lucia-Ann theaters from his father, Mike Cianciolo. He later owned the Northgate and Rosewood theaters, the Poplar Plaza Bowling Lanes and the Lucia-Ann Night Club. He built the Plaza Theater in 1956. In the early 1950s he sold his theater interests to General Cinema Theaters. He was a communicant of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Agnes M. Cianciolo; a daughter, Mrs. Gina Marie C. Wooten, and two sons, Michael A. Cianciolo and Joseph M. Cianciolo, all of Memphis; five sisters, Mrs. Anne C. Angelo, Mrs. Virginia C. Palazolo, Miss Marguerite Cianciolo and Mrs. Rosemary C. Nickas, all of Memphis, and Mrs. Lucia C. Nafieh of Mason, Tenn., and five grandchildren. (Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, on January 8, 1983)
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