Beverly Theatre
3029 Fairfield Avenue,
Bridgeport,
CT
06605
3029 Fairfield Avenue,
Bridgeport,
CT
06605
1 person
favorited this theater
Showing 9 comments
Great theater! I remember seeing the Bad News Bears there and E.T.
there were big openings at the back of the theater, so when you went to the lobby for snacks, you could still see the movie while standing in line. building is still there. Now a self storage place
Toward the end of its life, the Beverly showed second run features for 99 cents. Combined with the nearby Beverly Pizza House (which hasn’t changed one tiny bit) it made an excellent night out for broke high school kids. The theater closed within weeks of my graduation.
Alan, the “Firm” field on this page says that the Beverly Theatre was designed by William Riseman Associates. Riseman himself might have been the lead architect, but it was a large and busy firm so most of their projects would have been team efforts, and various associates might have taken the lead on any number of projects.
Handsome marquee and box office. Like the rounded corners and lighting and rough stone.
The building at that address is the former Beverly Theatre. And yes, it has been heavily modified although some elements of the theater do remain. The theater opened with a double feature — “The Rope of Sand” (1949) starring Burt Lancaster & “Illegal Entry: Formula for Fear” (1949) starring Sabryn Gene’t. The theater was designed in Mid-Century Modern (mid-20th century) style. If anyone knows who the architect is for this theater, please share? Thanks!
The building is still there but has been heavily modified. It’s currently a U-Haul Storage facility. If you look carefully you can still see the remains of the rock texture wall in the above picture inside of the building.
I uploaded the grand opening ad in the photo section
After a movie c.1959 the manager told me and a friend if we put all the seats back up he would give us passes, which he did. It was a very nice modern theater, not far from the Bullard factory.
I think this theater is demolished as there is no building at that address resembling a theater.