Town Theatre
600 Main Street,
New Rochelle,
NY
10801
600 Main Street,
New Rochelle,
NY
10801
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Closed in 1950 as Trent and reopened on June 24th, 1954 as Town. Grand opening ad posted.
Grand opening ad posted.
Some photos posted this past June at https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=howvideo1&set=a.1745887925594518
Uploaded a picture from the day.
This was the Trent. I was in New Rochelle looking through old city directories and the Town and the Trent both had the address of 600 Main Street in their times. It was also called the Cue at one point as well.
Roger, if you look at the various addresses the Trent would have been further down the street past the Town and the Proctors. I can’t see it in the 1969 image Ken McIntre linked of Main Street.
I believe this was originally the Trent Theatre and opened December 9, 1937.
Not-so-great scan from a newspaper clipping.
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Shoeshoe,
The Main St. Cinema was the stagehouse of Proctor’s. It had a separate entrance, box office, and concession stand.
When Cineplex Odeon operated the “Proctor’s Sevenplex”, it consisted of: Proctor’s (4 auditoriums), Loew’s across the street (2 auditoriums), and the Main St. Cinema (Proctor’s stage).
The Town was always the Town.
I found historic theatre attendance tallies for this theatre among others while working for the CT Film Fest last week. On Sunday, during the last screening, I self-toured Danbury’s Palace stagehouse on both sides and found the info.
It lists 3/19-3/25/79 and mentions the New Rochelle Proctor, Cinemas 1-3 with seat totals. The last line mentions the New Rochelle Main St. with 286 seats. I presumed it was this one.
Ok this was the place where I saw “live and let die” when it first came out, and boy was the place packed to the hilt. Main street was thriving, all the theaters were open, parking was plentiful food was abundant, the balcony was open and people were happier.
Here’s to better times.
The theater was opened again for a short time in the late 90’s for a showing of the titanic. Owned by the same people as the Scarsdale 99 cent theater on Garth rd. Scarsdale was demolished for apartments
While the Towne is a Wicker Paradise.
Brandt was operating the Town in the late 60’s.
This theatre is located at 600 Main St.
oh: http://wickerparadise.com/
Wicker? Wicker? Wow they got far out,,,, they should have a place made out of Wicker, not a movie theater, just wrong,
just my 2 cents made out of wicker
It is now a store called Wicker Paradise which sells furniture to meet all your wicker needs.