Garden Cinemas

26 Isaac Street,
Norwalk, CT 06850

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rivest266
rivest266 on June 19, 2024 at 10:29 pm

Opened July 19th, 1967

JosephMasher
JosephMasher on November 11, 2022 at 1:31 am

Newspaper article with photos: https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Norwalk-Garden-Cinemas-demolished-17550017.php

JosephMasher
JosephMasher on November 11, 2022 at 1:29 am

This theater was demolished in November, 2022.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on June 25, 2013 at 10:17 pm

The introductory line of our description for this theater is a bit misleading. The Garden Cinemas was across Isaac Street from the corner of the parking lot behind the Globe/Roxy Theatre. Saying “…by the former Globe/Roxy” makes it sound like they were in neighboring buildings, when actually the back of one is a couple of hundred feet from the front of the other.

Google Maps camera car didn’t go down Isaac Street, but if you look south on Isaac from Wall Street, I believe the Cinema Norwalk/Garden Cinemas was in the building at the end of the block, with the red and white vertical stripes.

Roger James Smith
Roger James Smith on June 25, 2013 at 9:06 pm

The Globe/Roxy was located in the former Norwalk Theatre, on Wall Street.

fred1
fred1 on January 27, 2010 at 5:59 pm

I beleive that Lowes operated this theater in the ‘80s

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on January 27, 2010 at 4:07 pm

The July 31, 1967, issue of Boxoffice said that Nutmeg Theatres had opened their new Cinema Norwalk at Norwalk. The original seating capacity of the single-screen house was 875. Though the item about the opening didn’t repeat it, an earlier issue of Boxoffice had given the name of the architect on the project as Burton S. Yolen, who had designed the chain’s Wilton Cinema at Wilton, Connecticut, two years earlier.

shoeshoe14
shoeshoe14 on December 6, 2007 at 10:36 pm

First listed in the 1969 City Directory as Cinema Norwalk (Isaac Shopping Center). Last listed in 1990 because their directories switch and that’s all they have. Unlike most local history rooms, they do not allow visitor access, only staff with book carts.

Roger Katz
Roger Katz on July 27, 2006 at 12:17 am

They also own the State Cinema in Stamford and the Empire Cinemas in Brewster, New York. Their website is http://www.ghcinemas.com/ .