According to mapquest, Tremont is just down the road from the Opera House, a few blocks away. It is another theater that I’ll post on here, at 396 Main Street and it’s now demolished.
This property no longer exists. It sat almost across from the Capitol Theatre. There is a bank to the right of it and a building behind what was the theatre so it must have been a very small neighborhood theatre with only maybe 100-200 seats. You can see what shape the property was.
The front doors of the former Opera House are closed, but if you look up the stairs, you will see Drum Studio sign. There are two stores on either side on street level. Around back, parallel to the railroad tracks is a small road that ends at a fence and becomes Farrel’s Manufacturing’s right-of-way.
I saw 2 workers doing roofing work on a lower portion of the roof – one floor on ground level about 500 sq. feet. The workers told me it was to become a restaurant that planned to open around April 1, but they said May 1 was more realistic. It had its own stairwell in back. I asked them if the landlord was paying them and they said yes and they said yes and he had just had them refinish the entire roof structure. I noticed the 2nd and 3rd floor windows had wood in them and i asked if he had planned to renovate the entire structure. They said eventually, but it would cost a lot of money and the landlord was into that.
This is just down the street from the Ansonia Opera House. The railroad (Waterbury to Bridgeport) runs just behind the building. From the side of this building you can see the lobby is all that remains while a similar shape but different facade is the new senior housing. Standing in front but walking around to the right, you’ll see the Water Street Sports Cafe on the right. Turn to the left and you’ll see a small doorway in the brick entranceway between the lobby and former auditorium. This hallway is a small parklike feature to the area with some benches and goes through to the other end. There are 2 fiberglass portals on the front of the building.
Somewhat bad news about the performance space upstairs, from my email.
“NEW BUSINESS BUMPS THE BALLROOM – LAst Empress email EVER!!!
This will be the last Empress email you ever get…Empress Ballroom will transform into an awesome new artsy business over the next few months. This will be very cool. details to come – keep checking http://www.briansstudio.com for updates. All the good big tours that we missed/passed on within the last year were due to this deal brewing. There may still be some occasional shows too… Check www.manicproductions.com for other good upcoming local/national
shows, or to book your tours or bands in the area. -Empress Staff
Wow and that sucks. I remember just watching La Bamba again where they had a marquee that said Paramount with the cop on horseback riding by. Of course that’s a movie.
It still stands. Biked by it at 10pm the other night, it still stands and the free standing marquee says something like, “Closed…” The building is huge and the front and sides are boarded up. I was late to catch a show in Orange so I didn’t have a chance to get up close, but they have a huge parking lot and that mall area is done. The Post Mall is where it’s at. Blah.
Ahem, Justin, Pulp Fiction brought back Travolta from the dead.
Ahem. I’ve heard that comment before. It’s a concert. Stand up and enjoy yourself.
Ahem…It would’ve been helpful to add that it was located here…/theaters/11417/
They added a second screen in 2003.
Was a former grocery store and opened as a cinema in 1997.
Doesn’t make it right. Sometimes there are morals involved, other times, capitalism.
This was a nickelodeon.
Was also known as the Broadway and when it replaced the wooden-framed Casino Theatre, it wasn’t the Casino on Genesee Street.
Was previously the Aero Drive-In Theatre which was demolished in the late 1960s.
According to mapquest, Tremont is just down the road from the Opera House, a few blocks away. It is another theater that I’ll post on here, at 396 Main Street and it’s now demolished.
It closed in 2004.
This property no longer exists. It sat almost across from the Capitol Theatre. There is a bank to the right of it and a building behind what was the theatre so it must have been a very small neighborhood theatre with only maybe 100-200 seats. You can see what shape the property was.
The front doors of the former Opera House are closed, but if you look up the stairs, you will see Drum Studio sign. There are two stores on either side on street level. Around back, parallel to the railroad tracks is a small road that ends at a fence and becomes Farrel’s Manufacturing’s right-of-way.
I saw 2 workers doing roofing work on a lower portion of the roof – one floor on ground level about 500 sq. feet. The workers told me it was to become a restaurant that planned to open around April 1, but they said May 1 was more realistic. It had its own stairwell in back. I asked them if the landlord was paying them and they said yes and they said yes and he had just had them refinish the entire roof structure. I noticed the 2nd and 3rd floor windows had wood in them and i asked if he had planned to renovate the entire structure. They said eventually, but it would cost a lot of money and the landlord was into that.
This is just down the street from the Ansonia Opera House. The railroad (Waterbury to Bridgeport) runs just behind the building. From the side of this building you can see the lobby is all that remains while a similar shape but different facade is the new senior housing. Standing in front but walking around to the right, you’ll see the Water Street Sports Cafe on the right. Turn to the left and you’ll see a small doorway in the brick entranceway between the lobby and former auditorium. This hallway is a small parklike feature to the area with some benches and goes through to the other end. There are 2 fiberglass portals on the front of the building.
Opened in 1994.
Opened in 1993. And that’s MERIDEN, not Meridan.
Somewhat bad news about the performance space upstairs, from my email.
“NEW BUSINESS BUMPS THE BALLROOM – LAst Empress email EVER!!!
This will be the last Empress email you ever get…Empress Ballroom will transform into an awesome new artsy business over the next few months. This will be very cool. details to come – keep checking http://www.briansstudio.com for updates. All the good big tours that we missed/passed on within the last year were due to this deal brewing. There may still be some occasional shows too… Check www.manicproductions.com for other good upcoming local/national
shows, or to book your tours or bands in the area. -Empress Staff
Saw and ad in last week’s New Haven Advocate that this theatre is looking for employees!
The Virginia Gazette says it was the second drive-in to be built in Virginia and the sixth to be built in America.
Was owned by Cecil S. Houck.
Also known as Cinerama.
Was also known as East Valley Mall Cinemas and Chandler Discount Cinemas.
Had a capacity for 400 cars and owned by Howell Theatres.
Wow and that sucks. I remember just watching La Bamba again where they had a marquee that said Paramount with the cop on horseback riding by. Of course that’s a movie.
It still stands. Biked by it at 10pm the other night, it still stands and the free standing marquee says something like, “Closed…” The building is huge and the front and sides are boarded up. I was late to catch a show in Orange so I didn’t have a chance to get up close, but they have a huge parking lot and that mall area is done. The Post Mall is where it’s at. Blah.
Other pics. http://www.swankpad.org/places/bama/us431.htm