Plaza Theatre
103-12 Roosevelt Avenue,
Corona,
NY
11368
103-12 Roosevelt Avenue,
Corona,
NY
11368
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Loew’s Plaza Theatre first opened in November, 1927, presenting vaudeville with a feature movie. After Loew’s built the larger and more luxurious Valencia Theatre in Jamaica and Triboro Theatre in Astoria, the Plaza Theatre landed on the bottom tier with the circuit’s other Queens theatres— the Hillside, Willard, Prospect, and Woodside. The Valencia Theatre got the double-feature programs first, the Triboro Theatre a week after that, and the others a week after the Triboro.
In the early-1950’s, Loew’s divested the Plaza Theatre to comply with Federal anti-trust regulations, and the theatre became part of the Century Circuit, which finally closed it due to a decline in the neighborhood. An “indie” took over, twinned the theatre and converted it to showing the latest Hollywood movies with Spanish sub-titles. The Teatro Plaza closed in late-2005.
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Warren G. Harris
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Just re-registering for alerts with this photo link: View link
Wow that is a lot of information on that marquee!
(also reregistering for alerts at the same time)
When you have a chance, Warren, could you re-post to your Photobucket profile the images you provided links to on April 19th and July 25th of last year? Many advance thanks!
Never have heard of this theatre till today,nice old picture of the Loews Style Marquee.
Warren, why is it you photobucket pix links never work? I can never see any of your pix. The american classic images works though. I took this picture of the theater today. I noticed the building from the subway platform and knew I was looking at a theater. Took me a bit of time to figure out what it was originally. I love spying dead theaters and then trying to look them up on this site.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeldj/4915011820/
The Plaza is featured in this recent New York Times article and slide show about cinemas converted to retail: View link
Thanks for posting Tinseltoes.
This undated photo probably shows the Plaza during its Hispanic phase, but I can’t swear by it: View link
While trolling through a collection of old photos that had been posted in a Facebook group dedicated to memories of Queens (in particularly Corona, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights), I found this pair of marquee profile shots:
1982 snow storm
Sometime between closure and Walgreens
Google Maps street view shows rear side of the auditorium, which runs parallel to Roosevelt Avenue.