Elvin Theatre
117 W. Main Street,
Endicott,
NY
13760
117 W. Main Street,
Endicott,
NY
13760
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Opened September 2, 1922 with Norma Talmade in “Smilin' Through.” It also opened with a recital on the Link organ and the venue also had a Link piano. Projectors were by Simplex. The name Elvin was a combination of Mrs. Dittrich’s “Ellen” and Mrs. Ammerman’s “Vina” - “Elvin.” The venue added sound to remain viable. It closed February 2, 1960 by Mrs. S. Howard Ammerman and Dittrich Enterprises showing “Blue Angel” and “Beloved Infidel.” The town also lost its Strand Theatre two months earlier. The building was razed in 1961 for the Midland Trust bank.
SH Ammerman was Samuel Howard Ammerman, known as Howard.His first wife, I believe her name was Vina Ammerman, was not my Grandmother, however, my Grandmother, Florence Ammerman, ran the theater after my grandfather died in 1940.
Opened Saturday, September 2, 1922.
But Kate wrote on the State Theater page: My Grandparents, Howard and Florence Ammerman owned the Elvin. The Elvin was named for the founders' wives (my grandfather’s first wife).
A comment on the Cinema Endicott page says that the Elvin Theatre was owned by the Ammerman family. I think perhaps this item in the April 8, 1922, issue of The American Contractor was about the Elvin, and a copy editor just garbled the owner’s name:
It wouldn’t be surprising that they got the owner’s name wrong, as they surely misspelled the name of one of the architects, William Normile, and probably the other, who must have been Gerald Schenck, later of Lacey, Schenck & Cummings.