Loew's Yonkers Theatre
155 South Broadway,
Yonkers,
NY
10705
155 South Broadway,
Yonkers,
NY
10705
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Tomorrow (February 2nd) will mark the 84th anniversary of the grand opening of the Yonkers Theatre, according to details of a report in The New York Times of the following day (2/3/1928). The 2,800-seat Yonkers was built and financed for $900,000 by a local business tycoon, John E. Andrus, who had also once served as Mayor of the city. Before the theatre’s opening, Andrus made a long-term operating deal with the Loew’s circuit. With a policy of a feature movie and vaudeville, Loew’s Yonkers was one of the first theatres in Westchester County to be equipped with a refrigeration plant to keep it cool in summer, according to the NYT article. George Miner was the first house manager.
Loew’s Yonkers was the very first stop for Al Jolson on his now legendary promotional tour for “Jolson Sings Again” in the summer of 1949. Over three consecutive evenings starting on August 10th, Jolson performed on stage at a total of 18 Loew’s theatres in the Greater New York area, or six per night. After the Yonkers on that Wednesday, he raced with a NYPD escort to Loew’s 175th Street in Washington Heights; the Paradise, Fairmont, and National in the Bronx, and finally to the Victoria in Harlem. A lengthy article and lots of rare photos of the entire tour can be found in the December 2011 issue of Classic Images Magazine.
Thanks Brad,another great photo.
They must have been the Martin and Lewis of their day ,I see Barto and Mann on Old Marqiuees.
This photograph of the Loew’s Yonkers Theatre was taken in 1931 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto and Mann.
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A photograph of the marquee and vertical sign of Loew’s Yonkers circa 1928-29 can be found in the new Arcadia paperback, “Yonkers (Then and Now),” compiled by the Yonkers Historical Society. The book gives a demolition date of 1975.
A Robert-Morton theater organ size 3/13 was installed in Loew’s Yonkers in 1927.
Here are some rare views of the interior, which I copied from the 1928 volume of the monthly Architecture & Building Magazine:
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This 1954 ad for the Brandt Yonkers mentions “formerly Loew’s"
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This was apparently built by Loew’s in 1927 and first opened in 1928. There’s an illustrated article about it in Architecture & Building Magazine for 1928, Volume 60, pp. 241, 257-258. Eugene DeRosa and Milton H. McGuire are credited as the architects. I found an index card for this at the Library of the Performing Arts in Lincoln Center, but the periodical itself is at the Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street Library, so I haven’t be able to consult it yet.
The Yonkers Theatre was demolished in 1975.
A McDonald’s now sits on the site.
The former Brandt Theatre is demolished.