Park Theatre

Ed Solero on December 6, 2005 at 1:49 pm

I took a couple of shots of the building I assume was the old Park Theater. It is now office space for a number of businesses and medical practices and is located on the north side of Jericho Turnpike on the corner of N. 10th Street (on the same block that intersects with Lakeville Road to the west). I never attended this theater, but I work in the neighborhood and decided to take my camera out for a cinematic tour.

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The comments about Eldee Electronics are confusing me. I can visualize an “Eldee” sign written in neon script somewhere in the neighborhood, but I see it over a corner entrance in my mind’s eye, not over the building I just photographed for this site. Can anyone familiar with the area’s history pinpoint the Eldee sign?

jwood on November 25, 2004 at 11:19 am

The intersection of Lakeville Road and Hillside Avenue (the next major east-west route north of Jericho) was probably only a quarter mile west of the Nassau-Queens line. Down at Jericho, Lakeville was probably a little further from the city (the roads not running straight north-south), but I can’t remember for sure.

I grew up on Stewart Avenue (the one that began north of Hillside) in New Hyde Park in the fifties, and the back fence of our yard was the Nassau-Queens line. The kid who lived in that adjacent house went to Van Buren High School, while we were in the Great Neck school system.