Loew's Mt. Vernon Theatre
30 Stevens Avenue,
Mount Vernon,
NY
10550
30 Stevens Avenue,
Mount Vernon,
NY
10550
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One of four large Loew’s theatres in Westchester County, the Mt. Vernon Theatre first opened in April, 1925, and survived into the 1960’s, when it was demolished to make way for a municipal parking facility.
More information is needed about its history.
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Warren G. Harris
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This theater was at Park and Elm in Mount Vernon in 1933, but it is unidentified. It doesn’t appear to be one of the three listed to date. Any ideas?
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The 1934 Film Daily New York lists a Bunny Theatre with 600 seats in Mount Vernon. That might be it. After the fire, it could have closed forever or been renovated and re-named. The name “Bunny” (honoring early film comedian John Bunny) suggests it was probably one of the first cinemas built in Mt. Vernon, and may not have been up to modern safety standards.
An Austin theater organ opus 1307 size 3/13 was installed in the Mt. Vernon Theater in 1925 at a cost of $14,300.
This photo shows the Loew’s Mt. Vernon in the late 1940s.
I believe that the architect of the Mt. Vernon was R. Thomas Short. The exterior brick work and design are similar to that used by Short for the Prospect in Flushing, Queens, and the Bliss in Sunnyside, Queens. The Mt. Vernon and Prospect were built by Century but leased to Loew’s. Century also built the Bliss and operated it for its entire lifetime as a cinema. R.Thomas Short designed most of the larger pre-WWII Century theatres, usually working with William Rau as interior designer.
The link I posted on 9/26/07 no longer works; use this instead:
Loew’s Mt. Vernon, late 1940s
Nice pitcure mp775.Never heard of this Loews before.
The NYPL website shows an undated photo of a Mount Vernon Theatre, but I doubt if it’s the Loew’s Mount Vernon. The outside posters, however, suggest that this Mount Vernon Theatre was being used as a cinema at the time. Perhaps it is listed at CT under a subsequent name?
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Definitely not Loews…..
I knew Loew’s very well in the 1950’s and early 1960"s. In 1952, I saw two black and white horror features in one afternoon: Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and Dracula with Bela Lugosi. When I was in junior high school, the “Bridge over the River Kwai” was playing and my boy scout troop built a replica of the bridge (lashed wood structure) and it was put atop the ticketbox. I still have the picture from the Daily Argus!