Loew's Fairmount Theatre
708 E. Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10457
708 E. Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10457
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Should be 3 screens instead of one. Please update.
According to the New York Times, the Fairmount did converted did try to convert into a quad, but the papers said that it converted into a triplex. For a short time, it was known as Fairmount Cinemas, and was operated by Lesser. The theater operated as a first-run/second-run triplexish until February 1991 as latest.
The Fairmount was about 2 to 3 miles northeast of Yankee Stadium. I lived equidistant between them
How far was it from Yankee Stadium?
What’s the interior look like now? Is it being used?
The theater was located a few blocks from my grandmother’s apartment in the Bronx, and I went once in 1953 to see “King of the Khyber Rifles” with Tyrone Power. I was obsessed with CinemaScope films and this was an early one. I remember very little about the theater, except that it was a rather small one by Loew’s standards.
I am a fireman who works In This neighborhood, my firehouse is on Tremont avenue in between the lowes fairmont theater and the RKO Chestertheater that was on Boston road, do any of you have any
original pics of any of these theaters in their glory days, my company often performs safey inspections on These buildings and we would love to see some pictures of the inside of these buildings in their hay day.
Looks like the old LOEWS marquee with the Loews ripped off.
Loew’s Fairmount
708 East Tremont Avenue
Bronx, New York 10457
The 1928 Robert-Morton theatre pipe organ was disassembled some time prior to 1985 and is now installed in the studio of Paul van der Molen of Wheaton, Illinois.
The organ was described as having “18 ranks, 6 tuned percussions,” and “a toy counter for special effects.”
There is at least one recording of the organ: a two-cassette collection* of hymns entitled “Glory Sounds” played by organist Tom Hazleton. The set was issued by:
Wheaton-Fox Productions
O North 468 Witlow Road
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
(*spotted at a used-book store outside Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
Has all of the internal ornamentation been lost? Are there drop ceilings protecting the original ceiling?
Three photographs of the Loew’s Fairmount Theatre I took in June 2005:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221335905/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221336917/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221337783/
My dad and his partners ran the Fairmount Theater from 1960—1969. It was a beautiful theater.
A few years later they bought the Deluxe theater on Tremont and Belmont, a block away. Dad was a great manager and showman. They turned both theaters into money makers.
It’s was heyday of great films, 1960-1969.
What actors! What directors! What films!
There were movie theaters all over the Bronx—
the RKO Chester, the Vogue, the Loew’s Elsmere, the Fairmount, the Deluxe, the Crotona, the Art, the Devon, the Dover, the Ascot, the Loew’s Paradise, the RKO Fordham, the Valentine, the David Marcus, the Palace, the Earl, The Ogden, and many others.
To view several recent pics, click here and scroll half-way down the page:
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The theatre operated in the late 80’s and early 90’s as the Fairmount 4 by an independent operator. After sitting dark for years, the theatre became a supermarket. The lobby and auditorium, right up to the stage, was gutted and leveled for the store. The decor above the drop ceiling and balcony (which was split into two theatres) is apparently still intact. The marquee frame is still there; the supermarket’s signage is hung over it.