Loew's Fairmount Theatre
708 East Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10457
708 East Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10457
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Lost Memory whats wrong with the picture of the marquee,still has the letters on it.
Looks like the old LOEWS marquee with the Loews ripped off.
Still had the vertical sign in this 1976 photo.
This is a photo from 1981. That is one ugly marquee.
Here is a new link to the photo posted on Jun 4, 2008.
This is a photo of Loew’s Fairmount.
Loew’s Fairmount
708 East Tremont Avenue
Bronx, New York 10457
The 1928 Robert-Morton theatre pipe organ was disassembled some time prior to 1985 and is now installed in the studio of Paul van der Molen of Wheaton, Illinois.
The organ was described as having “18 ranks, 6 tuned percussions,” and “a toy counter for special effects.”
There is at least one recording of the organ: a two-cassette collection* of hymns entitled “Glory Sounds” played by organist Tom Hazleton. The set was issued by:
Wheaton-Fox Productions
O North 468 Witlow Road
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
(*spotted at a used-book store outside Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
Has all of the internal ornamentation been lost? Are there drop ceilings protecting the original ceiling?
Three photographs of the Loew’s Fairmount Theatre I took in June 2005:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221335905/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221336917/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221337783/
My dad and his partners ran the Fairmount Theater from 1960—1969. It was a beautiful theater.
A few years later they bought the Deluxe theater on Tremont and Belmont, a block away. Dad was a great manager and showman. They turned both theaters into money makers.
It’s was heyday of great films, 1960-1969.
What actors! What directors! What films!
There were movie theaters all over the Bronx—
the RKO Chester, the Vogue, the Loew’s Elsmere, the Fairmount, the Deluxe, the Crotona, the Art, the Devon, the Dover, the Ascot, the Loew’s Paradise, the RKO Fordham, the Valentine, the David Marcus, the Palace, the Earl, The Ogden, and many others.
A Robert-Morton organ Size 3/19 was installed in the Loew’s Fairmount Theater in 1928.
To view several recent pics, click here and scroll half-way down the page:
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The theatre operated in the late 80’s and early 90’s as the Fairmount 4 by an independent operator. After sitting dark for years, the theatre became a supermarket. The lobby and auditorium, right up to the stage, was gutted and leveled for the store. The decor above the drop ceiling and balcony (which was split into two theatres) is apparently still intact. The marquee frame is still there; the supermarket’s signage is hung over it.