Wakefield Theatre
4214 White Plains Road,
Bronx,
NY
10466
4214 White Plains Road,
Bronx,
NY
10466
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This Bronx neighborhood house seems to have closed sometime in the mid-1970’s.
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Lostmemory you are correct it should be road instead of avenue. Avenue will not map, even though on several instances the address is listed as avenue.
For awhile,maybe once or twice, they held boxing matches there. But now its a church
The Wakefield was my regular Saturday afternoob theater. The usual double feature, Pathe News, cartoon and serial (which we called “The Chapter.”) At one time they had a quiz show on stage featuring neighborhood kids.
Hello everyone, my name is Deouan Wilson and I am a member of Greater Faith Temple which now resides at The Wakefield Theatre. I am a part of our Performance Department and we will be putting on a theatrical production titled, THE WORD on December 1st, 2007. We would like to pay homage to the theatre and invite anyone who remembers the “glory days” when the venue showed motion pictures, hosted boxing matches, etc. So if anyone out there has any pictures, articles or anything interesting about The Wakefield, please contact me at Thanks!
This photo shows the Greater Faith Temple.
Here is a circa 1969 photo of the Wakefield Theater.
This is a new link for the photo posted on Jun 4, 2008.
Listed at 4212 White Plains Road in the 1960 yellow pages. Phone number was FAirbnks 4-0400.
Two numbers off is no big deal.
The Wakefield was the biggest and best of the Bronx/Yonkers borderland neighborhood movie houses — including the Kent, the Kimball, the Craft, and the Laconia — that I explored during my high school years (1947-1951). The Wakefield often showed “first run” flicks a little before the others, and was not as gringy as some. The Saturday walk from my home in Woodlawn, across the 233rd Street Bridge and up the hill, is still remembered fondly.