Town Theatre
157 Glen Street,
Glen Cove,
NY
11542
157 Glen Street,
Glen Cove,
NY
11542
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Opened on January 18, 1961 with Cary Grant in “The Grass is Greener”. The Town Theatre was built down the street to its identical sister theatre, the Glen Cove Theatre and was operated by Town & Country Theatres.
It closed in 1979 and lay unused for many years until it was eventually demolished.
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The Town and the adjacent Glen Cove were both designed by Queens architect Leon A. Miller, according to his biographical listing in the 1962 AIA Directory. The Glen Cove was the earlier project, built in 1959. The Town was built in 1961.
A couple of photos illustrate an article about the Town Theatre that begins on this page of the July, 1961, issue of International Projectionist.
This comment by dw438 on a Cinema Treasures news post says that the Town Theatre was down the block from the Glen Cove Theatre, beyond a McDonald’s, and was torn down and replaced by shops in the 1970s. The front store in the strip mall north of McDonalds is the Wild Fig restaurant, which has an address of 157 Glen Street. As the Town Theatre is gone, that’s probably the closest we’ll get to its address until an old directory listing shows up. The Glen Cove Theatre building is still standing, occupied by a Dollar Tree Store.
Wild Fig’s address is actually 167 Glen Street.
The Town and the Glen Cove were next to each other, almost like formerly cojoined twins. Don’t remember which was to the right, or left, of which. Therefore, the addresses can’t be all that different.
The Town was closed before 1979 and it’s adjacent sister, the Glen Cove, was a 78 cent discount house according to the ad in the classic June 1979 issue of Newsday issued as a supplement today.
1968 photo added courtesy Suzanne Lowy Ceriello.
Opened January 18th, 1961, and NY Daily news listings ended in 1979 Was a Mann theatre in the mid-1970s.
Higher quality grand opening ad, as well as a colorized picture, posted.
Introduction says two screens but according to my memory and the absence of anything in the comments section I believe it was always a single screen venue.