Palace Theater
108 Port Richmond Avenue,
Port Richmond,
NY
10302
108 Port Richmond Avenue,
Port Richmond,
NY
10302
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The Palace Theatre is located in the Port Richmond district of Staten Island.
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the website movie-theatre.org has a map of staten island theatres circa 1950, the only palace theatre shown is on port richmond ave, not far from the ritz.
today’s s.i. advance states the palace was indeed in port richmond , as was the ritz.
I am looking for info on Percival “Patty” Roberts, my great-grandfather, stage manager of Palace Theater in New York (not sure if Staten Island or Manhattan). I have old sepia photos of him standing next to switchboard backstage which is about six feet wide by eight feet tall, lots of “Frankenstein” switches.
He knew vaudeville stars Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, etc. My grandmother would fill in between acts singing opera onstage as a little girl.
Not sure if this is the right theater, but from old photos compared to what I saw in person, the Palace Theater, Staten Island, New York, is in ruins, closed.
It’s located on Richmond Terrace, which is a long street that runs along the north shore of the island.
Some GREAT old postcard renderings of many Staten Island theaters and other landmarks can be found at this website:
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Can you help me?
Thanks, Rennie Miller
By the way, Garth, I now realize that you mistook the word “Vaudeville' for "Tottenville”!!
OOPS! My bad… there IS a Palace in Tottenville.
link to Staten Island theater photos:
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I was so wrong! My G-grandfather worked at the palace in Manhattan. And THIS one in Staten Island was on Port Richmond Avenue. Looks like it’s been long since remodeled into something else.
Ronnie , I found a reference book at the St.George library called Going To The Movies On Staten Island. There was a second Palace Theatre in Tottenville, it opened in 1918 and closed in 1928. There is a clearer photo of the Port Richmond Palace and you were right , it does say Vaudeville on the sign.
Can’t find anything in the google views that looks anything remotely like the picture postcard; either the Palace was razed long ago or the building modified beyond recognition.
In 1924, a projectionist for the Palace Theatre was chief suspect in a lurid murder case: nydailynews