Martin Cinerama
3615 Tulane Avenue,
New Orleans,
LA
70119
3615 Tulane Avenue,
New Orleans,
LA
70119
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The theatre opened as the Martin Cinerama with the three-strip process and was sold to Trans-Lux Theatres in the late 60’s where it completed it’s life as a regular movie theatre.
Shortly after its long-running engagement of “2001:A Space Odyssey”, it changed hands and became the Pussycat’s Sinarama and showed porno films until the early 80’s when it became the Riverboat Hallelujah, a reception hall. It was demolished in 2001 and is now the site of another drugstore.
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It converted to 70mm on 12/19/63 and ran 70mm thru 1975.
That big curved billboard that looks like a screen, was it used for advertising Cinerama films?
Robert, the one in St. Louis was so I am sure that the one in New Orleans did the same.
I spent a great deal of time at this theater in the 1960s. I caught “How The West Was Won” “Mad Mad Mad World” “Battle of The Bulge” “Custer of The West” and “2001” there.
I honestly never cared for this large expensive theater. Even as a kid, I prefered Art Deco or movie palace theaters. The modern 1960s exterior and interior left me more than cold. I did not like walls hung with drapes and the cold futuristic lobby.
It was completely torn down, and a Social Security office now sits on the site.
Here’s a pic of the curved billboard in front of the Cinerama after it became the Sinerama. This is from a newspaper ad.
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According to this website, the architects for the New Orleans and St. Louis Martin Cinerama theaters were Cinerama Inc., and Finch Alexander Barnes Rothschild and Paschal: View link
I saw Mary Poppins at this theater in 1964 when I was 7 years old.
Announcing a book about New Orleans Movie Theaters
THEREâ€\S ONE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
The History of the Neighborhood Theaters in New Orleans
is being written by 89-year-old Rene Brunet, the dean of the motion picture industry in Louisiana, and New Orleans historian and preservationist Jack Stewart. The 160-page,coffee table book will be released in November and is being published by Arthur Hardy Enterprises, Inc. Attention will be focused on 50 major neighborhood and downtown theaters, culled from a list of nearly 250 that have dotted the cityâ€\s landscape since the first “nickelodeon†opened in 1896 at 626 Canal Street. The book will be divided by neighborhoods and will open with a map and a narrative about each area. Each major theater will feature “then and now†photographs, historic information, and a short series of quotes from famous New Orleanians and from regular citizens who will share their recollections.
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED
We are trying to acquire memorabilia and additional photos of this theater for this publication. (deadline July 1.) You will be credited in the book and receive a free autographed copy if we publish the picture that you supply. Please contact Arthur Hardy at or call 504-913-1563 if you can help.
I remember seeing “How The West Was Won” at Martin’s Cinerama, right off Tulane. Three projectors on the huge curved screen. Pretty cool for its time.
Great “Sinerama” photo posted by DriveinMike on 9/12/08.