New Theater
8008 Rockaway Beach Boulevard,
Rockaway Beach,
NY
11693
8008 Rockaway Beach Boulevard,
Rockaway Beach,
NY
11693
No one has favorited this theater yet
Another theater that I found on the web is the New Theater. (Click the link below for a photo) Caption with photo reads:
“The ‘New Theater’ on Rockaway Boulevard, looking southwest from Beach 80th Street, on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, May 18, 1954. This is next to the site of the under-construction Hammel Houses, finished in 1955. The film playing is ‘Roman Holiday’, which, as advertised, had just won 3 Oscars, one for the ‘front’ writer for the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo”.
Any further information on the New Theater would be appreciated.
Contributed by
Lost Memory
Want to be emailed when a new comment is posted about this theater?
Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater
Recent comments (view all 11 comments)
From a newspaper called “The Wave” dated March 4, 1954:
“Three movie theaters advertised in the paper that week. The Gem Theater in Far Rockaway was showing "Hondo,” with John Wayne and “Forbidden,” with Tony Curtis and Joanne Dru. The New Theater on Beach 80 Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard (called “The Itch” by those who attended the theater on a regular basis) was showing “The Man Between,” with James Mason and Claire Bloom. Coming attractions included “Tarzan and the Leopard Woman.” The Park Theater on Beach 116 Street was showing “The Eddie Cantor Story” and “Highway Dragnet” with Richard Conte".
In the book “Nickelodeon Theatres and Their Music” by Q. David Bowers, a Wurlitzer ad from 1914 is reproduced on page 143.
The New Theatre
K and K Amusement Corporation
Boulevard and Pleasant Avenue
Charles Kramer – president
Woody? [could be “Teddy”,“Tedore”(Theodore?) or “Moore] Klein [manager?]
Rockaway Beach, N.Y.
“It is impossible for a whole orchestra of fifteen or more pieces to render such music or follow the pictures as well as your Wurlitzer orchestra [photoplayer?] under the control of one musician”.
[signature indecipherable].
The view from the side in the 1950s photo at the top matches the front view in this 1980 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/d9nv3a
I could be wrong, but I don’t think that’s a photo of this theater. It might be a photo of the Park Theater which was located in Rockaway Park. You should post the photo on that listing and see if anyone can confirm it. Anyway, it’s a nice photo.
OK, I will post it over there. Thanks.
Here is the New Theater in 1969.
There is no way the image posted 4/10/09 is the New Theatre when you compare is with the image posted 4/16/09. It has been suggested it is the Park but all the Park links are no longer working. Also it was never posted on the Park site for confirmation, but that wasn’t done. Could you please do so Ken.
I have confirmed that the 4/10/09 image is, in fact, the Park Theatre when it was the Belle Harbor.
It looks like I posted the 4/10 image on the Park page on 4/11/09.
The second photo link is indeed the New Theater before it was demolished. The Belle Harbor was the final name of the Park Theater which was located on Beach 116th Street. That building still stands.