Mount Eden Theater
50 W. Mount Eden Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10452
50 W. Mount Eden Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10452
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My apartment building was adjacent to the Mount Eden theater. When I was very young, they were still showing serial chapters, e.g. “Atom Man vs. Superman” (Columbia). It was a vey wide theater with no balcony. I have some pictures which show the Mount Eden marquee in the background, circa summer 1952, and it says: “CLOSED FOR THE SUMMER… WILL REOPEN IN THE FALL… VISIT THE SURREY THEATER”. As I recall, the last feature shown there was “High Noon”. Bear in mind that major features reached the nabes way after downtown openings.
By the way, DeRochemont renovated the place for “Windjammer” in the summer of 1957. It was subsequebtly torn down to make way for the Cross Bronx Expressway.
This was also the theatre in which producer Louis DeRochemont tested the new 3-panel CineMiracle process.
The Mount Eden Theater is mentioned as being ‘planned or under construction’ in the 1927 edition of Film Daily Yearbook (published in 1926), so a December 1926 opening is feasible. It was a project of Milnat Realty Corp. and had a planned seating capacity of 1,700. Later editions of F.D.Y. give a seating capacity of 1,745.
In December of 1926, a Wurlitzer organ was installed in the Mount Eden Theater. Also, on one of those nostalgic message boards someone posted about going to this theater in the 1940’s. They wrote that it was located on Mt. Eden Avenue about a block from the Surrey Theater.