De Luxe Theatre
650 E. Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10457
650 E. Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10457
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One of the many theatres that once lined the streets in the borough of the Bronx. This theatre opened as the Belmont Theatre in around 1920. It operated into the mid-1970’s. It now houses a pharmacy.
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William Gabel
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It was still open in 1974
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My “uncle” Louis Weiner (not really an uncle, but that’s what he was called) was manager of this theater back in the 1940s, before I was born. Around the corner on Belmont Avenue was the apartment building where my aunt and grandparents lived. I saw the theater whenever we visited them in the early 1960s (we lived a couple of miles away) but I never went inside.
A photograph of the De Luxe Theatre I took in June 2005:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221247379/
A comment on that photo from my older sister, who spent considerable time in the De Luxe as a child in the 40’s:
“The Deluxe theater pic was sad, because all the art deco stuff is gone (wonder what they did with the blue-tiled mermaid fountain in the lobby?). But it is the same building; the entry doors are in exactly the same place.”
Adults only at the Deluxe Theater.
Boy, that photo kind of defines the gritty 70s!
This is an updated link for the photo posted on Jun 3, 2008.
The year given for this photo is 1986. It looks like a color version of the photo that I linked to on June 30, 2008.
According to this photo, dated 1981, the theater was occupied by a Hugo’s Steak House as well as a Bargain Storage facility. Comparing to Lost’s 1986 photo… I wonder if these dates are correct. Seems the storage space/steak house usage would have come after the building ceased theatrical operations.
Minutes of a December 21, 1920, meeting of the NYC Board of Appeals reveal that the theater at 650 Tremont Avenue was designed by architect Eugene De Rosa.