New Theatre
8008 Rockaway Beach Boulevard,
Rockaway Beach,
NY
11693
8008 Rockaway Beach Boulevard,
Rockaway Beach,
NY
11693
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Another theatre that I found on the web is the New Theatre which opened in 1913. (Click the link below for a photo) Caption with photo reads:
“The ‘New Theatre’ 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 Theatre would be appreciated.
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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.
In all the ads I’ve seen for the New they favored the spelling theatre.
A June 2, 1921 article in The Wave about the New Theatre being sold that year, states that the New Theatre was built in 1913 for the Kramer brothers (K & K Amusement Corporation).
Welcome back, Lost Memory! It’s been like five years. Glad to see you posting again.
Hello Mike. It’s good to be back….I think. I wasn’t gone that long. It was around 3 years, 7 months, 11 hours and 15 minutes. But who’s counting. LOL