Loew's Palace Theatre

Hartford, CT

645 Main Street

, Hartford, CT 06103 United States

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Status:	Closed/Demolished
Screens:	Single Screen
Style:	Unknown

Function:	Unknown
Seats:	1639
Chain:	Unknown

Architect:	Unknown
Firm:	Unknown

Located almost next to its sister theater the Loew's Poli Theatre, the Loew's Palace Theatre opened on May 25, 1914 and ran first run movies also. It was quite obvious that the interior had been modified. Where the side box seats were once located, some type of dark filler, perhaps painted plywood, was used.

The auditorium was very plain, making one wonder just how much of the original decor was not retained. The seats had white cloth covers.

I remember commenting about it to my mother about it and she said that many high class theaters used to cover their seats in the summer because all the ladies wore white. This prevented their attire from getting soiled, at least visably.

Contributed by Al Larkin

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The Loew's Palace Theatre was located at 645 Main Street and it was listed as seating 2344 in 1932 and 1639 people in 1956.

posted by William on Dec 8, 2003 at 1:20pm

Would love to see a photo(s) of this former theatre in Hartford.

posted by Patsy on Oct 10, 2005 at 4:22pm

When I attended this theater in the early 50's, as I did all of the downtown Hartford theaters, this and the Loews next door, were truly very ornate. During intermissions, when all the lights were on, I would look up at the huge chandelier, painted ceiling and ornate sculpture and think that I really was in a palace. The Allyn, Loews and the Loews Palace were the first to install air conditioning. The E.M. Loew's that was next to the Allyn, never did get refridgerated. It was still packed in the summer time. They used big fans and opened all of the doors.

posted by Charles J. Buckley on Jun 28, 2007 at 8:40pm

A period photo of the theatre when it was the (New) Palace Theatre can be seen in the "Images of America" book Hartford, Volume I, page 61. The marquee displays the 1929 film The Cockeyed World.

posted by Gerald A. DeLuca on Jul 23, 2007 at 10:50am

I would love to see the photos that are in the "Images of America" for the Palace and other Hartford theaters but not having the book, I would ask that the photos that Mr. DeLuca mentions, be scanned and posted along with your comments to the 'ADD PHOTO' link at the top of this page.

posted by Charles J. Buckley on Jul 23, 2007 at 3:26pm

I will attempt to scan and post them as links to a photo server in the next few days. The add-a-photo function on this website doesn't work, and in any event would allow for only one photo per theatre page.

posted by Gerald A. DeLuca on Jul 23, 2007 at 4:04pm

Mentioned in http://www.hogriver.org/issues/v01n03/palaces.htm

posted by shoeshoe14 on Mar 14, 2009 at 5:31pm

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