Rockland Theatre
36 N. Broadway,
Nyack,
NY
10960
36 N. Broadway,
Nyack,
NY
10960
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Located north of Main Street, the Rockland Theatre was located at 36 N. Broadway. It was quite large and had a fancy entrance with a huge awning with flashing lightbulbs. It was the showplace theatre in the county. The Rockland Theatre was opened on May 15, 1928 with Nick Stuart in “High School Hero”. It was equipped with a 2 manual 7-rank Wurlitzer organ which was opened by organist Jack Taylor. It was built for S. Bratter & S. Pollock. Until 1952 African Americans were allowed to sit only in the balcony. The Rockland theatre was closed on November 7, 1967 with George C. Scott in “The Flim-Flan Man” & Hugh O'Brian in “Africa:Texas Style”.
It was demolished in April 1978 and housing and offices named Victorian Mews were built on the site.
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The opening comment could not be more untrue. The Nyack Rockland theater was the showplace of rockland county. Many broadway shows were tested there and it was one of the most beautiful movie house in the north. I will be posting soon my own memories of this palace with photos I took before it was taken down in 1978. John babcock
Did they screen any of the Three Stooges shorts or movies in this theatre? Perfect town name for them(i think?)!!
Given its opening year and its location on Broadway at High Avenue, this had to have been the $350,000 house noted in the “Theatres Proposed” column of Variety on June 1, 1927. The project, for owners S. Bratter and S. Pollock of Newark, was being designed by noted Newark architect William E. Lehman.