Normandy Theatre
4217 New Utrecht Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11219
4217 New Utrecht Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11219
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The Elton Theatre opened on September 20, 1928 with Janet Gaynor in “Street Angel” as a medium sized movie house before sound films. It was renamed New Elton Theatre in 1932. Showed B-and C-films. The theatre was quite plain, no balcony.
It was renamed Normandy Theatre in 1948, and closed in 1955. Now a factory.
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Also the status above should not be “open” since this theater is listed as closing around 1958. According to a real estate search, there is a factory “Light Manufacturing” located at this address today.
The correct spelling is Normandy. This theatre opened in 1919 as the Elton Theatre. When the other Normandy Theatre on Fulton Street became the Howard Theatre this Elton Theatre then became the Normandy Theatre. I show the seating for this theatre at 1200+ seats.
Now I know where the name Elton Theater comes from. City recirds list the original owner of this theater as the Elton Amusement Co. The architects name appears to be J.M. Berlinger.
A Kimball organ was installed in the Normandy Theater in 1919.
A plain looking theatre (inside and out)-especially when compared to nearby Loew’s 46th Street and Loew’s Boro Park theatres.
My father owned a luncheonette across the street from the Normandy on New Utrecht ave, and got to know the manager/owner a Mr. Green I recall. My mother who worked in the store, would leave me in the theatre to babysit me, I guess in 1950-51 or 52 and the matrons as we used to call them would look after me. I recall having to sit through A Streetcar named desire over and over, and for years after I had an aversion to it. Also have a memory of seeing an Italian film either bitter rice or maybe anna with silvano magnano. In the mid 50’s it was turned into a factory, and many of the Puerto Rican workers would come to eat lunch at my fathers store, and I would sometimes go with my mother in the factory/theatre to deliver lunch for the workers.
Here is a link to Normandy photo circa 1945:
http://brooklynpix.com/photo1/B/boropark44.jpg
Listed as the Elton at 4215 New Utrecht in 1940 yellow pages. Number was WIndsr 8-3232.
No date is given for this photo.
As regards the picture posted by lostmemory, that is a picture of the Normandy Theatre which later became the Howard & Carver Theatres on Fulton St & Howard Avenue.