If you go to http://maps.live.com/and type in this theater’s address try going to “Bird’s Eye View” switching the views around. There is no view from the south, but if you use the other views there are two views where the theater is still intact from before the fire, but on the third view the theater has been gutted by fire.
There was an article in yesterday’s Hartford Courant about how this restaurant is now closed and the possibility of a new one. It mentioned that this building was in fact the Essex Junction Theater, which was a restaurant/movie theater from 1973 to 1989. It also mention how the building had been built in 1960 as a bowling alley. I knew this couldn’t have originally been a theater! My guess is that as a theater it did not have a sloped floor, but flat floors with tables for dining.
This theater was owned by the same family that ran the Berlin Cine 1 & 2. The Vernon Cine 1 & 2 was next to a mini golf course and arcade. I would always make a day of it as a child by going to play mini golf and video games, shopping at the baseball card store across the street, and catching a movie.
http://www.bingartscenter.org/ is the actual website (the link above doesn’t work). At http://www.cinematour.com/tour.php?db=us&id=5197 you can see pre-renovation photos I took in 2003. Has any work been done yet? I’d love to photograph any renovations that are taking place along with the finished product. Contact me by clicking my name to get to my profile and let me know if anything worth photographing has been done.
A Boston Globe article in 1988 about the Waltham Flick closing mentions that Waltham has lost another theater recently and then goes on to state that the Waltham Cinema closed in 1986. Therefore it seems that they are different theaters.
This cinema closed in 1986. There was also a theater on Winter Street in Waltham called the Waltham Flick that closed in 1988. Does anyone know anything about that one?
This place hasn’t been a movie theater since the silent era – they were all single screeners back then!
It has also been used as a basketball court. I believe that in recent months they have begun using the theater for live productions again for the first time in awhile.
Looking in the Norwalk assessor’s database, there is no building listed at 60 Wall St. There is 48 Wall St. and 64 Wall St. Both were built in the 1920’s, so I would say that this theater is demolished.
The website up top which used to be to save the Victory Theatre now is about saving the California Victory soccer team in San Francisco. Are hopes for this theatre dead?
See photos of it as an antique store at http://www.cinematour.com/tour.php?db=us&id=20816
“Why convert with us? ”
Because stadium seating is awful, and some people (including me) refuse to sit in it.
I know that in this area the theatre display ads in the newspapers are paid for but the small listings in agate are free.
…in fact, you can get the East view both ways if you cycle back through it: pre-fire and post-fire. Weird.
If you go to http://maps.live.com/and type in this theater’s address try going to “Bird’s Eye View” switching the views around. There is no view from the south, but if you use the other views there are two views where the theater is still intact from before the fire, but on the third view the theater has been gutted by fire.
There was an article in yesterday’s Hartford Courant about how this restaurant is now closed and the possibility of a new one. It mentioned that this building was in fact the Essex Junction Theater, which was a restaurant/movie theater from 1973 to 1989. It also mention how the building had been built in 1960 as a bowling alley. I knew this couldn’t have originally been a theater! My guess is that as a theater it did not have a sloped floor, but flat floors with tables for dining.
shoeshoe14: CinemaTour only lists live theaters that have once been movie theaters, same as this site.
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This theater was owned by the same family that ran the Berlin Cine 1 & 2. The Vernon Cine 1 & 2 was next to a mini golf course and arcade. I would always make a day of it as a child by going to play mini golf and video games, shopping at the baseball card store across the street, and catching a movie.
Hi Merrilee,
http://www.bingartscenter.org/ is the actual website (the link above doesn’t work). At http://www.cinematour.com/tour.php?db=us&id=5197 you can see pre-renovation photos I took in 2003. Has any work been done yet? I’d love to photograph any renovations that are taking place along with the finished product. Contact me by clicking my name to get to my profile and let me know if anything worth photographing has been done.
A Boston Globe article in 1988 about the Waltham Flick closing mentions that Waltham has lost another theater recently and then goes on to state that the Waltham Cinema closed in 1986. Therefore it seems that they are different theaters.
This cinema closed in 1986. There was also a theater on Winter Street in Waltham called the Waltham Flick that closed in 1988. Does anyone know anything about that one?
“judging by the size of it, was a one-screener”
This place hasn’t been a movie theater since the silent era – they were all single screeners back then!
It has also been used as a basketball court. I believe that in recent months they have begun using the theater for live productions again for the first time in awhile.
Looking in the Norwalk assessor’s database, there is no building listed at 60 Wall St. There is 48 Wall St. and 64 Wall St. Both were built in the 1920’s, so I would say that this theater is demolished.
The Park opened in 1939 to replace the Paramount Theatre down the street. It closed in 1962.
You are right! There is an article in the Hartford Courant today that states that K and G Theaters will reopen this cinema in April.
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I love the neon in the lobby of this theater. I wonder what will become of it after closure?
The Central Theater closed in 1976. It reopened in 1978 as a combination movie theatre/disco before closing for good in 1979.
Hi Gerald! I’m replying 3 years later, but…there isn’t a link to a photo in your post of July 12, 2005.
Their website is now http://www.shelburnefallsmemorialhall.org/
Is this actually demolished? There’s a building at that address that sure looks like it could’ve been the theatre, with major renovations done to it.
I have no idea.
This theatre was demolished in 2003.
Doesn’t this still stand as retail, which is contrary to the demolished status above?
The website up top which used to be to save the Victory Theatre now is about saving the California Victory soccer team in San Francisco. Are hopes for this theatre dead?