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Loew's Jersey Theatre exterior 2006. Loew's Valencia, Jamaica, Queens. The Loew's Wonder Theatres were movie palaces of the Loew's Theatres chain in and near New York City. These five lavishly designed theaters were built by Loew's to establish its preeminence in film exhibition in the metropolitan New York City area and to serve as the chain's ...
Loew's Theatres Incorporated was formed in 1904 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by entrepreneur Marcus Loew. Loew founded a chain of nickelodeon theaters which showed short silent films in storefront locations. Soon the company opened vaudeville houses and movie palaces. Loew's theaters were found in cities throughout the United States, but primarily in ...
The Valencia Theatre (formerly the Loew's Valencia Theatre) is a church building at 165-11 Jamaica Avenue in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York. . Designed by John Eberson as a movie palace, it opened on January 11, 1929, as one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City
The Loew's Jersey is one of five "Loew's Wonder" theaters in the New York City era, each of them an architecturally opulent movie palace. The Jersey opened in 1929, showing a mix of live ...
The Paradise Theater is located at 2403 Grand Concourse [4] [5] in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City, New York. [6] The theater was one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area, along with the Jersey Theatre in Jersey City, the 175th Street Theatre in Manhattan, the Valencia Theatre in Queens, and the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn.
[31] [41] Like the other Wonder Theaters, the Loew's 175th Street featured a "Wonder Morton" theater pipe organ manufactured by the Robert Morton Organ Company. [29] [42] The organ featured a console with 4 manuals and 23 ranks of pipes. [29] The United Palace's organ, which is seven stories high, is the only Wonder Theater organ that remains ...
The Kings Theatre (formerly Loew's Kings Theatre) is a theater and live performance venue at 1027 Flatbush Avenue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York. Designed by Rapp and Rapp as a movie palace, it opened on September 7, 1929, as one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area.
The Loew's Jersey Theatre is a cinema and performance venue at 54 Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.Designed by Rapp and Rapp as a movie palace, it opened on September 28, 1929, as one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area.