Comments from Ken Roe

Listed as the New Theater in the Film Daily Yearbook:1941 edition with a seating capacity of 900. By the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. it is still the New Theater, 51 Broad Street with seating given as 700.

An internet search of 51 Broad Street brings up the current occupants as Bobby’s Department Store.

The Rex Theatre is listed in the Film Daily Yearbook:1941 & 1943 editions with 300 seats and (Closed) in both editions. It does not appear in the 1950 edition. Could it have possibly re-opened after 1950 for another 10 years or so?

Listed in Film Daily Yearbook’s:1941 & 1943 editions as the Park Theatre with a seating capacity of 1,367. By the time the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. was published it was known as the RKO Reade’s Theatre with a seating capacity of 1,053.

Listed as operating as the 400 seat Pix Theater since at least 1941 thru to at least 1950.

Two photographs I took of the Walker Theatre in July 2003:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/219248080/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/219248385/

Now I am getting confused here!! The link you posted as an ‘actual ariel photo’ actually shows an ariel view of the Century’s College Theatre, 1584 Flatbush Avenue listed on CT here: /theaters/3871/

The Century’s Linden Theatre has always been listed as 1260 Nostrand Avenue in Film Daily Yearbooks and had a seating capacity of 1,447 (now demolished). There was also another Linden Theatre, 815 Flatbush Avenue with 1,000 seats, listed on CT here: /theaters/7702/

The theatre on this page….the Mardi Gras Theatre, 1295 Nostrand Avenue (listed at this address in the American Motion Picture Directory 1914-1915) would have had a seating capacity of no more than 400. As it closed in 1915 I doubt that there are many alive today that would remember it operating as a movie theatre.

Listed in the Film Daily Yearbook;1950 edition as the Opera House with a seating capacity of 946.

Originally opened as the Opera House. Later operating as the Falls Cinema & New Falls Cinema for many years, it has now been refurbished and re-named the Bellows Falls Opera House. Plans are going ahead to refurbish the stage and backstage areas so that live perfomances will be able to take place again to complement to film performances.

A photograph of the Semiramis Cinema by Joshua Partlow—The Washington Post:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/218023574/

The photograph showing a theatre on Rockwell Place shows the Strand Theater, located at 647 Fulton Street and Rockwell Place. It’s most interesting feature, still to be seen today is the Romanesque exterior facade. See… /theaters/1407/

J.F.Lundy….The Mardi Gras Theatre was never the Century/Linden Theater. That was located at 1260 Nostrand Avenue, had a seating capacity of 1,447 and has now been demolished. It has its own listing here on CinemaTreasures… /theaters/6322/

Perhaps you would care to re-post your most interesting comments above onto the Century/Linden Theater page and so help to build up a history of that theatre.

Listed in the 1926 and 1927 editions of Film Daily Yearbook as the Reo Theatre with a seating capacity of 600. In the 1930 edition of F.D.Y. it is listed as the 600 seat Reo and is (Closed).

There is no theatre listed as operating at this address in the 1941 F.D.Y. (I don’t have edition between 1931-1940 to verify if it was open during those years). However in the 1943 edition of F.D.Y. it is listed as the Wagner Theatre with a seating capacity of 510. Still listed as operating as the wagner Theatre in 1950 with 550 seats. By 1957 it has gone from listings in Film Daily Yearbook, but must have re-opened as a porn cinema which went into the late 1960’s.

A play by David Barth ‘Hard Right’ was being staged at the Players Theatre when I took this photograph in May 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/217086443/

A photograph I took of the Anthology Film Archives in May 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/216993575/