Loew's Elsmere Theatre
1924 Crotona Parkway,
Bronx,
NY
10460
1924 Crotona Parkway,
Bronx,
NY
10460
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Previously operated by: Loew's Inc.
Firms: Shampan & Shampan
Styles: Beaux-Arts
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The Elsmere Theatre was one of the first Loew’s theatres in the Bronx, opening in 1914. Never more than first-run for the neighborhood (Tremont-West Farms), it closed in the 1950’s.
For a time, the Elsmere Theatre served as an evangelical church, but by 2004 it was vacant and in a vandalized condition. It was demolished in May 2007.
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Warren G. Harris
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A 1948 image of the theatre can be found here:
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A 2002 image is here:
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I seem to recall that by the late 1940’s, early 1950’s most theaters had air conditioning. As a young child, I visited this theater once sometime before 1952 and it wasn’t air conditioned.
Two photographs of Loew’s Elsmere Theatre I took in June 2005:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221376920/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221378112/
I’ve walked by this site several times in the past few weeks. The portion of the building that had been standing for years has been completely torn down. There is now a backhoe on the lot digging up ground, presumably to prepare for new construction.
I believe that this theater no longer exists, as was pointed out on 5/17/07. I can’t confirm that, however.
Cool picture of the LOEWS ELSMERE. Never heard of it until today.
The Elsmere Theatre was designed by the firm of Shampan & Shampan, architects of the Williamsburg Theatre in Brooklyn.
Here is an early photo of the Elsmere, from a 1916 book, “Theatres and Motion Picture Houses” by Arthur Sherman Meloy.
Thanks Tinseltoes.
On April 22 1953, Film Daily reported on page one that Loew’s was testing various wide screen systems at the Elsmere Theater.
Like cinemascope and cinerama. Those were the biggies. Panavision didn’t even exist back then, and by the time the theater closed in 1954, vistavision was born.