De Luxe Theatre
650 E. Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10457
650 E. Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10457
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Here’s a 1980s tax photo of the building: lunaimaging
The photo of the theatre posted several times here must be earlier than 1981. Both the film listed on the marquee were released in 1967. I would say the place ran its last film prior to 1981.
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.
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.
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.
This is an updated link for the photo posted on Jun 3, 2008.
Boy, that photo kind of defines the gritty 70s!
Adults only at the Deluxe Theater.
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.”
A photograph of the De Luxe Theatre I took in June 2005:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221247379/
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.
It was still open in 1974
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Now a Rite-Aid. To see a recent pic, go here:
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