Bunche Theatre
2299 W. Bunche Park Drive,
Miami,
FL
33054
2299 W. Bunche Park Drive,
Miami,
FL
33054
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According to Box Office the Bunche Theatre was announdced in 1950 for Bernstein Theatres seating 1500.
The header needs to be updated with the correct address given by AlAlverez on Mar. 31, 1010.
2299 W. Bunche Park Drive places it where it should have been located.
The address is either 2299 or 2990 W. Bunche Park Drive (more than likely 2299 – West of NW 22nd Avenue). The address above is a typo.
Bunche Park is near Miami Lakes and may now be part of that city.
That address doesn’t make sense. As far as Miami goes, I have never seen a W on an address. It has to be SW, because Miami goes as far north as 210th street, and that is right on the broward county line. This has to be the Perrine bordering on Homestead area, in which case, it would SW, not W.
The Bunche Park section of Miami-Dade dates back to the early fifties and was established for black WWII veterans and named after the then recent the Nobel Peace Prize winner. The theatre was closed by the late sixties.
Yes, it’s shown in the listing of Wometco’s theaters in operating that year as the Bunche Theatre (unfortunately there isn’t an address given).
Is it listed as the Bunche Theater in the FDY?
Ken, this theater isn’t listed in the Film Daily Yearbooks until the 1953 edition.
Ralph Bunche died in 1971. If the theater predated that time, it probably had another name. There are parks and other things named after Bunche, so it’s a safe bet that the theater was re-named for him as well.