Loew's Metropolis Theatre
2644 Third Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10454
2644 Third Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10454
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The Metropolis Theatre is listed in a 1913 book, Our Theatres To-day and Yesterday, by Ruth Crosby Dimmick. It gives the opening date as August 30, 1897.
Very interesting.
Two photographs of the remains of the Metropolis Theatre I took in June 2005:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/225441324/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/225441808/
My father, who is 93, remembers going to the Metropolis Theater as a young child with his brothers and sisters to watch cowboy movies. He told me it was evident that the theater, which was impressive, had seen better days. The movies were played without musical accompaniment.
Listed as Metropolis Theatre, 2644 3rd Avenue, no other details given.
Warren;Thanks for the additional information and details on the Metropolis Theatre. It is listed in the 1914-1915 edition of the American Motion Picture Directory, so I presume was screening movies at that time.