Palace Theatre
2384 James Street,
Eastwood,
Syracuse,
NY
13206
2384 James Street,
Eastwood,
Syracuse,
NY
13206
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The Palace Theatre was operating prior to 1941 when it was part of the Schine Circuit. I accidentally drove past this theatre early last summer. It has an attractive terra cotta facade, and it appears to have its original vertical sign.
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Old photo, appears to be from the 1940s from the cars:
http://www.walkeastwood.org/photos4.html
Site of a recent film festival:
http://www.syrfilmfest.com/news/palace.htm
A Wurlitzer organ, opus 1159, was installed in this theatre on 9/19/1925.
In May 1976, the Palace was showing a revival of Gone with the Wind. Most of the theaters in the area appear to have been owned by a company called Cinema National. A local newspaper ad also shows a few independent theaters, including two adult venues, the Franklin on 237 South Avenue and the Studio on Wescott Street.
Contrary to what it says at the very top of this page, this was never an RKO house, the theatre has always been independently owned. It was built in 1924 by Albert DiBella, and was run for most of its life by his daughter Frances, who was present almost every night that it was open (In 1990, I joined the list of people who thru the years made her an offer for the place, to no avail). When she passed a few years ago, it was handed down to her nephew Mike, who threw some money into cleaning it up and refurbishing. Currently it’s running as a combination single screen sub-run house and live concert venue. It joins the Westcott (used to be the Studio in it’s early days), Manlius and Hollywood as Syracuse’s still running independents. The Franklin is long gone.
I have some 50s pics of the Franklin, have been in the Westcott, and never saw the Manlius. Most of CinemaNational’s theatres are gone now: Westhill, Cinema East, Cinema North, Shop City…
Here is a recent photo of the Palace Theater.
The 1943 edition of Film Daily Yearbook lists the Palace Theatre as being operated by RKO Theaters.
Here is a 1948 ad from the Syracuse Post-Standard:
http://tinyurl.com/2eadpu
Another photo of the Palace Theater can be seen here.
The year given for these photos is 1983
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