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On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:51:05 -0400, A Boater wrote:


I'm not sure I was ever in one. The "fancy" movie theater in New Haven
when I was a kid was the independent "Whalley Theatre," on, what else,
Whalley Avenue. Whalley Avenue was named after one of the judges who
signed the death warrant for Charles I of England.

Most of them, might have been before your time. Poli Theaters go back to
Vaudeville days. However, there were two Poli theaters in New Haven.

Here's one:

http://insight.library.yale.edu/Yale...449/257566.jpg



Yeah that was a tad before my time. I have no memory of that scene, even
with more modern cars... :)



I only recall two "downtown" movie theaters I went to in New Haven. I
think one might have been called the College Street theater, and the
other, which I will never forget, was called the Lincoln Theater. It was
where I saw my first movie. It was a re-release of Bambi, and I saw it
in 1948 or 1949. Scared the crap out of me.

The Whalley was the big first-run theater for us. Saw the 10
Commandments there and also Bridge over the River Kwai, and of course, a
lot of other movies.

I won one of the never-ending Duncan yo-yo contests at one of the
never-ending Saturday kiddie matinees at the Whalley. :) By the time I
got through kidhood, every kid in New Haven won that contest at least once.