Newport Theater
3541 Newport Avenue,
Norfolk,
VA
23508
3541 Newport Avenue,
Norfolk,
VA
23508
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This was a neighborhood theater on Newport Avenue at W. 35th Street in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1928 it was equipped with a Robert Morton 2 manual 9 ranks organ. It had a balcony and I went there in 1961. It wasn’t a large theater and it was just down the street from the Rosna Theatre which was on W. 35th Street.
The Newport Theater was demolished in 2012.
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PLEASE CHANGE ADDRESS TO:
3541 NEWPORT AVENUE
THANKS
636 W. 35th St. is the address of the Rosna Theatre which is also listed here on CT.
Went to the Newport as a kid.. saw several Disney movies there.. AKC’s address looks right, I remember the entrance around the corner on Newport Ave.
Apparently this theater has been demolished. There is a video over at Youtube of the demolition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmjQMkwSsGU
Got this note from a friend that lives close to the Newport:
The end of an era. The Newport Theater in Norfolk is now an empty lot.
Google aerials still show the Newport but Street View shows demolition in progress.. 04 NOV 2013.
My grandfather was a projectionist in the early forties. My mother would sometimes play the organ. I remember visiting the projection booth and my grandfather holding more up to see the movie out the window of the booth when I was a small child.
Sweet marquee and box office design.
My first experience at the Newport was with my Mother, we walked to it one evening and saw the Creature from the Black Lagoon. As I grew up in the surrounding neighborhoods we would always go to the Newport or the Rosna which was around the corner on 35th street. Both theaters were great but I loved the Balcony at the Newport. As a younger we saw so many movies at the Newport and I ended up working at the Newport and the Rosa as a Usher and learned to be a projectionist for a while. It was a wonderful experience since most of the theaters back then were own by the Levine company and we got to help out at other places too. RoadShow movies were big in the 60’s and I worked Throughly Modern Millie, Gone with the Wind, Space Odessey ect. What a great time.
The Newport Theatre opened on February 21st, 1928 with “The Opening Night”. Grand opening ad posted.