Lenox Theater
961 Albany Avenue,
Hartford,
CT
06112
961 Albany Avenue,
Hartford,
CT
06112
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I found this mentioned in a journal of Hartford movie theaters.
http://www.hogriver.org/issues/v01n03/palaces.htm
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Listed in Film Daily Yearbook’s 1941 and 1943 editions with a seating capacity of 946 and being operated by Warner Bros. Circuit Management. The 1950 edition of F.D.Y. gives a seating capacity of 1,000.
Exact address was 961 Albany Ave. It is demolished and there is now a gas station there. I believe this is also now the most crime-ridden location in the entire city according to a Hartford Courant study.
An Austin organ Opus 1419 Size 3/8 was installed in the Lenox Theater in 1926 at a cost of $5,000.
Here is a 1953 lawsuit against the Lenox:
http://tinyurl.com/yx3smu
I was just watching a youtube video on Charles Nelson Reilly (RIP) and he was talking in an interview about why he hates going to theaters and being in crowds. (He was at the circus in Hartford in 1944 when a fire broke out and killed 168 people). He mentioned his friend’s mother owned the Lenox Theatre on Albany Avenue.
Here is an item from Boxoffice magazine in April 1960:
HARTFORD-Community Theaters, a suburban circuit, has boosted adult admission from 70 to 75 cents, after 7 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, at the Central, West Hartford and Colonial in Hartford. The theaters' early bird policy of 60 cents for adults remains in effect from 6:15 to 7 p.m. on those days.
At the same time, children’s admission has been increased from 25 to 30 cents at the Lenox, Colonial and Central.