Plaza Theatre
451 Main Street,
Stamford,
CT
6902
451 Main Street,
Stamford,
CT
6902
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The Plaza Theatre opened on May 29th, 1936. Grand opening ad posted.
My grandfather, Archibald McNeil Erskine was an ornamental plasterer. His last job was during the depression when he worked on the ornamental plastering on the ceiling (or maybe it was up by the ceiling)in the Plaza theatre before it opened.
Two small interior photos of the Plaza Theatre illustrate this brief article in Boxoffice of October 17, 1936.
Another view of the Plaza’s auditorium illustrates an ad for Heywood-Wakefield theater seats on this page of the same issue of Boxoffice.
I’d like to hear more about its final days as an adult theater. 1138 sets! That’s some porno palace.
Just watched “Boomerang” and there were some nice shots of the night-time marquee, showing “Smoky” in Technicolor.
The 1937 Stamford City Directory mentions it as the Plaza at 451 Main Street.
Closed in 1976. Great. City Directory lists it in 1968 but not 1978, microfilm would have confirmed the gap but I had no time to check.
This theater was first listed in the Stamford City Directory in 1906 and was called The Stamford Family Theatre.
I remember this being the “Darkest” of all the Stamford Movie Theaters' back in the 60’s. Impossible to adjust your eyes to find a seat when you first walked in. Remember seeing “The Time Machine” here in 1962. Also saw either “A Hard Days Night' or "Help” there.
One debuted at the Plaza and one at the Palace. Near the end the paint was peeling badly from the ceiling. The old girl had to go for the Town Center Mall. That was progress?
The Plaza was also known as the Family Theatre at one point.
The Plaza Theatre seated 1138 people.