Art Theatre
1077 Southern Boulevard,
Bronx,
NY
1077 Southern Boulevard,
Bronx,
NY
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My photos are at http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/17178.html
I believe the photo posted in the last comment is the Jerome Theater at Burnside and Jerome ave.
Here is an updated link for the photo posted on Jun 4, 2008.
The Art Theater can be seen in this photo.
The 1970 IMPA shows the operator of the Art as Lightstone Theater Enterprises, Inc, president Morty Lightstone. This outfit ran numerous houses in New York at that time as well as several in New Jersey, one in Connecticut and one in Washington, D.C.
Some exterior views can be seen in the new feature article about the Longwood district in the Bronx at www.forgotten-ny.com
The Art Theatre is listed in the Film Daily Yearbook;1926 edition with a seating capacity of 690 (590 in the 1930 edition, 600 in 1940 and 580 in 1950). It had gone from listings in 1957.
Here are three photographs of the Art Theatre I took in June 2005:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/225253718/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/225254308/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/225260715/
The Jerome theater was also called the Art theater. Could that be the one your thinking of?
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Was this the theatre later called Art Jerome? From the 70’s on there was a second run theatre listed this way and I think it might be this one.
This theatre is still standing and is currently in use as a Pentecostal church. To see recent pics of the building, as well as pics of several other old theatre buildings in the neighborhood, check out my web page:
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