Star Palace Theatre
22 W. Main Street,
Patchogue,
NY
11772
22 W. Main Street,
Patchogue,
NY
11772
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The Star Palace Theatre on W. Main Street was located just 100 feet from the 4 Corners of Patchogue (Main Street and Ocean Avenue) and was built in 1910. Many famous personalities of the day performed at the Star Palace Theatre. It played motion pictures, vaudeville acts, and concerts.
Irving Berlin held the tryout show for his “Yip, Yip Yaphank” play at the Star Palace before it appeared on Broadway. The Star Palace Theater has been razed, and a storefront building has been built in its place (probably in the early-1960’s).
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Yes, I was looking for info on the fire at the Rialto which led me to Cinema Treasures. I worked at the Rialto Theater for 2 ½ years in high school. Fire played a large part in the changing face of the village. I remember the LAce Mill fire in 1971. They should have let it go then. And there was a big fire on West Main Street at the restuarant supply store in the winter of 1965-66. I remember that the firemen had to deal with frozen equipment (on the trucks-not their own). I was walking hoem from my girlfriend’s house and stopped to watch.
I worked at the Rialto too! And before me, my sister was an assistant manager. That put one or the other of us there from around 1968/69 until 1974.
Does anyone have any photos of the interior of the old Star Palace.
I didn’t realize this was Patchogue’s first theater.
Bway- according to a July 1913 Patchogue Advance article, the Star Palace was not the first theatre in town. The second Unique (laterly Rialto) beat it to the punch. The 1910 date which is mentioned in Hans Henke’s Patchogue the Early Years, and in the heading of this site, seems to be invalidated by the 1913 news article. Mr. Henke’s second book, uses 1913 as the opening date. While the early book contains a photo of the theatre being built and a night time shot, there are no interiors. Apparently, in addition to the race to be first, there was competition for customers. Barkers were at the four corners (Main and Ocean) trying to drum up business (November 21, 1913 Patchogue Advance).
And, just in passing this was the second Star Palace; the first one was at 32 South Ocean Avenue.
As is currently the case when a new theatre opens an old one closes. When Mike Glynne opened his $250,000 Patchogue Theatre on May 23,1913 it spelled he end to the Palace which closed eight weeks later. At that time the Palace and the Unique(later Rialto) were operated by Nathan Goldstein. The following March Goldstein sold the Unique to Glynne and it was renamed Rialto.
Uploaded photos of the Star Palace under construction and a night shot.
Uploaded an early, colorized, street shot.
Further to robboehm ’s comment from March 20, 2010, I just uploaded a photo of the original theater located on South Ocean Avenue.
moviegoer great find. Where did you get it?