Loew's Metropolis Theatre

2644 Third Avenue,
Bronx, NY 10454

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on April 18, 2013 at 8:31 pm

The Metropolis Theatre is listed in a 1913 book, Our Theatres To-day and Yesterday, by Ruth Crosby Dimmick. It gives the opening date as August 30, 1897.

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on April 21, 2010 at 3:53 pm

Very interesting.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on August 26, 2006 at 12:07 pm

Two photographs of the remains of the Metropolis Theatre I took in June 2005:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/225441324/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/225441808/

f9be22
f9be22 on November 7, 2005 at 11:22 am

My father, who is 93, remembers going to the Metropolis Theater as a young child with his brothers and sisters to watch cowboy movies. He told me it was evident that the theater, which was impressive, had seen better days. The movies were played without musical accompaniment.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on August 4, 2005 at 4:42 am

Listed as Metropolis Theatre, 2644 3rd Avenue, no other details given.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on August 3, 2005 at 7:01 am

Warren;Thanks for the additional information and details on the Metropolis Theatre. It is listed in the 1914-1915 edition of the American Motion Picture Directory, so I presume was screening movies at that time.