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. By 1938 it was operated by Kenroe Theaters Inc.
A description on the photograph located on the Related Websites link 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".
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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
OK, I will post it over there. Thanks.
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.
Welcome back, Lost Memory! It’s been like five years. Glad to see you posting again.
As a child, I used to watch Saturday double features here in the late 50s/early 60s.