Garden Cinemas
26 Isaac Street,
Norwalk,
CT
06850
26 Isaac Street,
Norwalk,
CT
06850
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Opened July 19th, 1967
Newspaper article with photos: https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Norwalk-Garden-Cinemas-demolished-17550017.php
This theater was demolished in November, 2022.
The introductory line of our description for this theater is a bit misleading. The Garden Cinemas was across Isaac Street from the corner of the parking lot behind the Globe/Roxy Theatre. Saying “…by the former Globe/Roxy” makes it sound like they were in neighboring buildings, when actually the back of one is a couple of hundred feet from the front of the other.
Google Maps camera car didn’t go down Isaac Street, but if you look south on Isaac from Wall Street, I believe the Cinema Norwalk/Garden Cinemas was in the building at the end of the block, with the red and white vertical stripes.
The Globe/Roxy was located in the former Norwalk Theatre, on Wall Street.
I beleive that Lowes operated this theater in the ‘80s
The July 31, 1967, issue of Boxoffice said that Nutmeg Theatres had opened their new Cinema Norwalk at Norwalk. The original seating capacity of the single-screen house was 875. Though the item about the opening didn’t repeat it, an earlier issue of Boxoffice had given the name of the architect on the project as Burton S. Yolen, who had designed the chain’s Wilton Cinema at Wilton, Connecticut, two years earlier.
First listed in the 1969 City Directory as Cinema Norwalk (Isaac Shopping Center). Last listed in 1990 because their directories switch and that’s all they have. Unlike most local history rooms, they do not allow visitor access, only staff with book carts.
They also own the State Cinema in Stamford and the Empire Cinemas in Brewster, New York. Their website is http://www.ghcinemas.com/ .