Shelton Theatre
509 Howe Avenue,
Shelton,
CT
06484
509 Howe Avenue,
Shelton,
CT
06484
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Listings for this theatre ended in 1979.
In the 1960’s the owner of this theater changed the name to “Shelton Fine Arts Theatre”. It had sunk to the point where it showed Adult Films. It had sunk that low. (It was not a chain)
As a theater, that was it’s ‘Last Hurrah’.
Does anyone knows what remains from the original theater inside the building today ?
This theater opened in 1915 and closed in the mid 70s. A picture is in Images of America: Shelton on page 119.
LM’s photo of 8/11/05 has moved to this location:
http://tinyurl.com/283x9g
Listed as the Shelton Theatre in the 1941 edition of Film Daily Yearbook with a seating capacity given as 550.
so i believe the Fine Arts was a small, regional chain? there was a westport fine arts 1 and 2 and the brookfield fine arts which closed down many years back. check the post i made from a few weeks ago about what we found.
It was actually the Shelton Fine Arts
The Shelton Theatre seated 448 people.