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This is the Stadium Theater on Main Street in Tottenville. The caption on the photo says 1927 to 1951. El Paso and Alias Nick Beal, the movies on the marquee were released in 1949. The building, I believe, is now empty, but it was recently a warehouse for furniture, I think. (The marquee is still there.) In 1968-69 it was one of the hot spots on Staten Island, as it was turned into a discotheque, complete with strobe lights. I remember a cover band doing the full-length version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly. It was really groovy!
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Shadows (1826). NYPL Art and Architecture Collection.
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Stadium Therter
Submitted by Doug Jorgensen on March 22, 2013 at 6:15 PM.
I checked on Google Earth...you can walk down the street and see the theater..yes boarded up, markee still there. I was born there in '45 (Richmond Memorial Hosopital, now labelled "University Hospital of S.I.), left in '55 to live in NJ. All my relatives lived there for many years after. Remmember walking on Amboy Rd to Main St...many times stopping at Mary's 5 & 10..used to buy those "high bouncer" pinkish balls for 10cts. Lived on 196 Barnard Ave (an address that's embedded in my head) and grandmother lived on other side at 96 Barnard Ave. Front steps of grandparents are still in tact...grounds look poorly maintained..for us kids used to cut the grass and trim the hedges which have disappeared! Went to PS1..loved the kind teachers. Played summer league softball at PS1 many summers spending school vacation there after moving to NJ. Yes, a memorable place. Yet today, have one cousin that stayed.
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