Tuxedo Theater
3464 Jerome Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10467
3464 Jerome Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10467
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In his book MY HAPPY DAYS IN HOLLYWOOD, television director Garry Marshall (Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley) talks about working in the Tuxedo as a boy. He vividly recalls working there during a showing of Ingrid Berman’s GASLIGHT as well as attending it on Saturdays to watch Flash Gordon serials.
The Davis Marcus name change came from a 1950 Skouras fund raising effort to benefit the United Jewish Appeal in aiding Israel’s development.
Without actually seeing the building or a recent photo of it, I can’t be 100% sure of whats located there. I did another search of 3464 Jerome Avenue and that search returned: Mosholu Station Post Office at 3464 Jerome Avenue: Monday through Saturday, 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. The closest furniture store that I can find to this address is Furniture Zone at 3448 Jerome Ave. If this address is a retail store, I can’t find anything to confirm it.
I was referring to the post by the person who went there in 2007. If it’s still a post office, then it stays a post office.
What type of retail store is located here? If you Google this address, it still shows a Post Office located here.
Looks like the function should be changed to retail.
In the 1970’s it also was an OTB parlor. I was there in 2007 and it’s now a furniture store, with a gigantic red canopy on the top of the exterior wall on Jerome Avenue.
Two photographs of the Tuxedo Theatre that I took in June 2005;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/227483442/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/227485033/
A biopic was made about David ‘Mickey’ Marcus in the early 60s. It was called “Cast a Giant Shadow” and it starred Kirk Douglas.
A Wurlitzer organ Opus 1842 Style D was installed in the Tuxedo Theater on 2/17/1928.
I’m not sure either. The David Marcus that Stepale2 mentioned was a Colonel in the Israeli Army. He came from Brooklyn and has a plaque located there. I don’t know why there would be a Bronx movie theater named after him and not a Brooklyn movie theater. But, anything is possible. You can read about Colonel David ‘Mickey’ Marcus here:
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I think, but am not sure, that David Marcus was an Israeli miliary officer in the late 1940s. I did not Google the name…so this is only a guess.
This was a Skouras house and then UA as the David Marcus. Who knows who it was named after?
The Tuxedo Theater is still in use today as a post office.