Park Plaza Theatre
1746 University Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10453
1746 University Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10453
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Opened in 1927, the Park Plaza Theatre was located on University Avenue (now known as Dr Martin L. King Jr. Boulevard) in the Bronx. It was next to Public School 82.
In the 1940’s and 1950’s it played double bills of second-run films and was operated by the Skouras Theaters Corp. chain.
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My only comment now, Ken, is that you’re doing a good job of poaching material that doesn’t belong to you without giving proper credit. Not once have you mentioned that your recent links to Bronx theatre photos were put on the internet by Back in the Bronx.com, which spent considerable time, effort, and money in doing so.
Get lost “Warren”.
I just saw a dvd called Back to the Bronx, A View From the Stoop, about the Bronx in the fifties, and sixties. Many still pictres of old Bronx movie theaters are shown, and on the second disc there is a bonus feature on the University Ave.benches. This is basically someone’s old home movies, but you can see PS 82 and the Park Plaza in the background.The discs are available for rental through netflix.
Slight correction to my previous post, the title of the DVD is A View From The Stoop, A Bronx Retrospective.
I just rode by today on my bike. It has been torn down. By the way, Stephen and Warren should get out on their bikes more often!
In August 1964, I went to a Friday evening showing of The Night of the Iguana, at the Park Plaza. I remember joining an extremely long line of people after getting my ticket. At that time, I think only one film was being shown.
I remember the Park Plaza well, it was at the SE corner of Tremont and University Avenues, with the Marquee on University Ave. facing West. It was generally shoddy and dingy in the 1950s when I lived in the area, and not being much of a moviegoer, I only attended films there a few times. It was reputed to be a tough theater for kids to sneak into. To its south was the concrete upper schoolyard of JHS 82, as others have correctly noted. Mike Price
This photograph of the Park Plaza Theatre was taken in 1929 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto and Mann.
Brad, thanks for sharing that rarity, which shows a Fox connection on the side of the marquee. I believe that the Park Plaza was built by the theatre division of Universal Pictures, which sold it to William Fox before opening. Skouras took over the Fox theatres in the Bronx after Fox’s bankruptcy.
Thanks for the photo Brad,and link.