Boulevard Theatre
1032 Southern Boulevard,
Bronx,
NY
10459
1032 Southern Boulevard,
Bronx,
NY
10459
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Anyone know what the status of the interior currently is?
I remember that when I was ten I went with my parents and a neighbor couple to Southern Boulevard for New Years Eve 1951. First we had dinner at a Chinese restaurant and then went across the street to the Loew’s Boulevard to see An American in Paris. Or, it could have been at the Loew’s Spooner, just down the street on Southern Blvd; which ever had the Chinese restaurant across the street.
Thanks for the update!
As of 6/30/15, the space is occupied by a T-Mobile, Planet Fitness, and a local clothing store. A portion of the facade, and especially the arch, has been restored and can once again read “Boulevard theater”.
As of 7/15/11 nothing occupies the space. It is an empty shell with forlorn signs on the windows “to let”,
See my photos at http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/22276.html
Lost Memory’s photo posted above on 7/1/08 dates from 1940 as the two features playing are ‘40 releases. Front of marquee reads as follows (best I can decipher):
FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS with RAY MILAND
MEN WITHOUT SOULS with BARTON MACLANE
PLAY TRIPLE SCREENO TONIGHT 8:45 . CASH
Two photographs I took of of the Boulevard Theatre in June 2005:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/225271610/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/225272318/
Your right! It was never called the Puerto Rico. It kept playing spanish movies as the Boulevard till the early 80’s. When it sadly closed. Remember going to see a couple of spanish movies in the mid 70’s. And was very impress with how awsome it looked. Sorry to see it closed and turn in to what it is today.
Here is an ad from it’s Puerto Rico days.
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To view several recent pics of this grand old theatre building, see my web page at:
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For many years after Loews closed the Boulevard it was operated by an independant who called it The Puerto Rico. They created 2 or 3 theatres in the balcony and kept the huge orchestra as it was. They presented live Spanish shows, I think in collaberation with the Commodore in Brooklyn. Many times they only ran movies in the upstairs cinemas because the main house was so big to heat and air condition.
This theatre is now a furniture store and a children’s clothing store.