the second picture is from 1978 but its not the star trek movie they were showing it was episodes. i remember going there to see Trek on the big screen. they were way ahead of their time
Ok this was the place where I saw “live and let die” when it first came out, and boy was the place packed to the hilt. Main street was thriving, all the theaters were open, parking was plentiful food was abundant, the balcony was open and people were happier.
Here’s to better times.
The theater was opened again for a short time in the late 90’s for a showing of the titanic. Owned by the same people as the Scarsdale 99 cent theater on Garth rd. Scarsdale was demolished for apartments
While the Towne is a Wicker Paradise.
Loew’s New Rochelle started showing hard ® movies in the late 70’s such as Flesh Gorden, which most likely lead to its ultimate demise.
Now a defunct night club. It stands vacant on a once lively strip of theaters and night clubs and bowling alley that lead the county in nightlife from the 50 to the early 90. This Part of Main St was the place to cruise
The New Rochelle mall was cool, if you were from New Rochelle. I saw the 1st Halloween movie there as well as superman and a few others; it was a large theater and was keep nicely, lots of competition from the main street theaters kept them somewhat upscale, the New Rochelle crowd made the place lively and fun. Great memories
Thank You very much for the photos, the New Rochelle RKO was the best theater I’ve ever been to, so many memories, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever, Rocky Horror and all the Rock and Roll Movies, fooling around with the ladies in the back row, smoking in the last 9 rows only and all the rest. A fantastic time has passed that we will never see the likes of that again in our clean sterilized world of gentrification. If New Rochelle had to keep 1 thing it would have been the RKO. Elaborate by today’s standards with grand fixtures and marble bathrooms, balcony’s and 4 screens before its time. Surprising that the historical society didn’t demand the theater restored! Hey where did that vibrant neon sign go? a lot of the fixtures live on in the Capitol Theater in Portchester, as the new Rochelle theater closed the capitol was undergoing renovation, both places are Landmark Thomas Lamb theaters, with similar or same features, thus the move over to Portchester, the Capitol is now used for bar-mitzvahs and boxing matches, Once the Capitol saw the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. I grew up in New Rochelle and was part of the renovation crew that’s where the info comes from.
H. Finkel
the second picture is from 1978 but its not the star trek movie they were showing it was episodes. i remember going there to see Trek on the big screen. they were way ahead of their time
Ok this was the place where I saw “live and let die” when it first came out, and boy was the place packed to the hilt. Main street was thriving, all the theaters were open, parking was plentiful food was abundant, the balcony was open and people were happier.
Here’s to better times.
The theater was opened again for a short time in the late 90’s for a showing of the titanic. Owned by the same people as the Scarsdale 99 cent theater on Garth rd. Scarsdale was demolished for apartments
While the Towne is a Wicker Paradise.
Loew’s New Rochelle started showing hard ® movies in the late 70’s such as Flesh Gorden, which most likely lead to its ultimate demise.
Now a defunct night club. It stands vacant on a once lively strip of theaters and night clubs and bowling alley that lead the county in nightlife from the 50 to the early 90. This Part of Main St was the place to cruise
The New Rochelle mall was cool, if you were from New Rochelle. I saw the 1st Halloween movie there as well as superman and a few others; it was a large theater and was keep nicely, lots of competition from the main street theaters kept them somewhat upscale, the New Rochelle crowd made the place lively and fun. Great memories
Thank You very much for the photos, the New Rochelle RKO was the best theater I’ve ever been to, so many memories, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever, Rocky Horror and all the Rock and Roll Movies, fooling around with the ladies in the back row, smoking in the last 9 rows only and all the rest. A fantastic time has passed that we will never see the likes of that again in our clean sterilized world of gentrification. If New Rochelle had to keep 1 thing it would have been the RKO. Elaborate by today’s standards with grand fixtures and marble bathrooms, balcony’s and 4 screens before its time. Surprising that the historical society didn’t demand the theater restored! Hey where did that vibrant neon sign go? a lot of the fixtures live on in the Capitol Theater in Portchester, as the new Rochelle theater closed the capitol was undergoing renovation, both places are Landmark Thomas Lamb theaters, with similar or same features, thus the move over to Portchester, the Capitol is now used for bar-mitzvahs and boxing matches, Once the Capitol saw the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. I grew up in New Rochelle and was part of the renovation crew that’s where the info comes from.
H. Finkel