Valencia Theatre
90-07 Merrick Boulevard | Jamaica | built 1930
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1929
Loew's opens the Valencia, the first of its five Wonder Theaters
The Valencia movie house in Jamaica opened on January 12, 1929, the first of the five Loew's Wonder Theaters. Its 3,500-seat auditorium was decorated to make moviegoers feel they were sitting in the middle of a Spanish town, with ornament throughout drawn from Spanish and Mexican design.
Source: atlasobscura.com
- 1929
The Valencia's ornate front carries seashells, a mermaid and blue swirls
The movie palace's carved front stands out among the plain shops of Jamaica with a loosely aquatic theme: seashell ornaments, blue swirls and a small mermaid placed at its center. Inside, the decoration reaches from the ticket booth to the lobby organ. A giant cross mounted on the facade partly draws the eye away from the carvings.
Source: atlasobscura.com
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