Delmar Theatre
333 Delaware Avenue,
Delmar,
NY
12054
333 Delaware Avenue,
Delmar,
NY
12054
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The Delmar Theatre opened in 1929, operated by Joseph Jarvis and his family as a neighborhood/village theater. After Jarvis died in 1949, his wife Mary K. Jarvis and her son, Joe Jarvis continued to manage the Delmar Theatre. Throughout the years, the Delmar Theatre was not only a mere movie theatre, but like many small-town cinemas, the site of gatherings for events such as charity benefits.
The Delmar Theatre closed April 4, 1958 after a double feature screening of Gregory Peck in “The Bravados” and David Hedison in “The Fly”, a victim of television and competing drive-in theatres in the area. The building still exists today, with additions built onto it, as a strip mall.
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In a 1982 interview for the Chicago Tribune, actress Eva Marie Saint (born in 1924) remembered “a movie theater we kids had nicknamed ‘The Stinkbox.’ The theater was in Delmar, N.Y., and I think it had been built over a sewer. It was the only movie theater in town, and the management had to spray perfume all through the house to counteract the bad odors.”