Melba Theatre
3428 Boston Road,
Bronx,
NY
10469
3428 Boston Road,
Bronx,
NY
10469
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The address for the Melba Theatre is 3428 Boston Ost Roadm Bronx, NY.
Somewhere between the 1941 and 1942 Film Daily Year Books, the theatre might have been renovated because the name changed from Melba to New Melba. But the seating capacity remained the same at 594.
The Melba was still in operation in 1974.
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I attended this theater during the 1960s several times.It was a neighborhood movie house in the north east Bronx in the Hillside Homes area.It reminded me a lot of the Malboe Theater out in Jamaica.It had one less seat 594 to 595.
This is an early 1970s photo of the Melba Theater.
Here is a new link for the early 1970s photo of the Melba Theater.
Why do some of your links have such a short life? That of 6/3/08 lasted barely a month. I guess that’s what happens when you link to sources not your own. You have no control over it.
Your correct. I have no control over how long a link will last. Those photos do not belong to me. I don’t post them under the pretense that they are my property. I could copy those photos to a Photobucket or Flickr account which would give me more control over the photos and possibly make the links last longer. But then I would be taking photos that don’t belong to me and that is considered “stealing”. I am not a thief and I have a very low opinion of people that do steal.
Well, we agree on at least one thing. I also abhor “stealing” of any kind, and think it should be punished to the full extent of the law.
Wow, the Melba Theatre was probably my favorite place on earth in the mid to late seventies. I remember the days when Saturday would be spent at the Melba. And I mean ALL DAY Saturday. Three features, starting at noon. It was really awesome for a preteen boy like myself with his hormones starting to flare up, because I could go see two Pam Grier movies, or two “Shaft” features, or any number of highly inappropriate movies for a boy my age, and we never got carded for Rated “R” movies. Stuff like Superfly, The Mack, Black Caesar, Mandingo, and on and on. Lots of nudity & sex scenes, plenty of violence, drugs, pimps & pushers, good old wholesome themes like that. Sometimes it was monster movies, sometimes it was Bruce Lee flicks. They would try to make the outing more family-friendly by inserting a more age-appropriate feature in between, like Swiss Family Robinson or Grizzly Adams. Those middle features turned out to be the social hour, as hundreds of rambunctious preteens passed the time before the real action to start again. Unless you were unfortunate enough to have had to bring your baby sister to the show – then you might actually have to watch Pippi Longstockings. Those sure were the days!