Fox Theatre
20 Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11217
20 Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11217
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Brooklyn Fox, the Beacon and United Palace are both in Manhattan.
Brooklyn Fox, how about the Ziegfeld Theatre ?
Anything left in Manhattan?
What about the Beacon Theatre and the United Palace (aka: Loew’s 175th. Street) and the Paradise Theatre in the Bronx.
Brooklyn Fox, how about the Ziegfeld Theatre ?
Not sure what’s there now instead of the Brooklyn Fox. I was last in that area Saturday July 15 2006 to see the original “Psycho” at the BAM (Brooklyn Academy Of Music) Rose Cinema.
You are very welcome Peter K. I love to reminisce about it.
I’d like to make a few additional comments…
The only Grande theater I know that is left in New York City is Radio City Music Hall, unless you want to count some Broadway theaters such as The Winter Garden. Does anyone else know of any Grande old theater left?
I read on this site that where the Brooklyn Fox once stood, Con Ed (New York City’s Electric Company) now stands. However, friends of mine in the past have told me it is a bank and parking lot? Can anyone clarify?
Thank you.
Thanks, Brooklyn Fox. That must have been some concert. It reminds me of the rock and roll shows that used to take place at the nearby Brooklyn Paramount, which see on this fan site.
I went to the Brooklyn Fox once when I was a preteen to the best of my memory autumn, 1964. I grew up in New Jersey and begged my mother to take me as I was and still am a huge Dusty Springfield fan. From what I can recall it was about a 60 minute ride by subway to get there after crossing the Hudson River by bus. It certainly was not a neighborhood that I was permitted to go to alone. It was a wonderful concert, the first one I ever attended. It was hosted by 1010 WINS NY Radio DJ Murray the “K” (Kaufman). The acts included nearly all the Motown Acts. The Supremes only had their first hit of Baby Love at that time. This also took place in the middle of the British Invasion with Dusty Springfield and The Searchers appearing, also Millie Small from Jamaica. An unbelievable concert with an unbelievable amount of talent and singers one stage. Lovely memories. It’s an awful shame that such a Grande old theater had to be torn down.
Probably the one at the top of this page.
There’s one of the Fox on the Bushwick Buddies website, “Theatres Of The Area”, but you have to log in as a member to view it.
www.bushwickbuddies.com
I was going to post about the “Crawford Special” notation, but others have already done so, and excellently too. Yes, just the console resides here in Washington. As much as I can’t imagine it in blue-and-gold, a theatre in Texas (Aztec, San Antonio?) has a Modernistic or “Waterfall” console painted red, orange and green, and the Organ Loft in Salt Lake City has a strange hybrid five-manual of the same style painted gold and sparkly metallic purple. All the (Fox) Specials had the same basic scalloped-lid console with scrolled corbels, but the Publix 1 organs saw all manner of cases: French, Moorish, Roman, Grecian, Modernistic, etc.
Back on-topic, can anyone point me to large (functional) images of the Brooklyn Fox interior, be they color or b/w?
Here is a 1938 photo of the Fox marquee as viewed from the Fulton Street “L"
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The “L” passing in front of the Flatbush Avenue Fox marquee is of the 5th Avenue BMT Line.
Photo from Frank Pfuhler Webshot collection.
In his posting of Jul 7, 2005 RobertR posted a link to a newspaper page with an ad for The Beatles on cctv at the Fox. View link . Immediately above this ad is another for the TOHO Cinema, 45th St. W. of Bway. Does anyone know anything about that theatre? This is the first I’ve heard of it, and it isn’t listed here on CT, at least not under that name.
Speaking of rock ‘n roll shows, the Fox Theatre in St. Louis was the site of the Chuck Berry 60th birthday concert (October 1986) as documented in the 1987 film, “Chuck Berry : Hail Hail Rock 'N Roll !”
Walking around downtown Bklyn over the weekend, I took this photo of the horrendously bland Con Edison Building that replaced the majestic Fox Theatre.
Click on the photo once to enlarge it and then click on “view verso” (at top) to read the caption. You can return to the photo by clicking on “view front”. You can also also blow the picture way up, a little at a time, by clicking on “pan and zoom”. The building being demolished is at the base of the tower and they appear to have been structurally the same building. Part of the tower remains and can be seen on views of the area on Local.live.com.
I don’t see the above-quoted caption, either “…the old Fox Theatre building being razed. The new Fox is on the left.”
I only see the Fox theatre on the left too. Its the angle of the picture.
Link to image here (Sorry so big…don’t know/remember how to shrink it)
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Warren, the photo of the Fox being demolished is dated 1941 and the building is across Nevins from the Fox Theatre of more recent fame. If you go to the NYPL Digital Gallery and search for image 704179F you can see the photo in question.
I recently came across a photo dated October 20, 1941 showing “…the old Fox Theatre building being razed. The new Fox is on the left.” The tower (shown in the photo) was obviously part of the old building, across Nevins Street from the new building. Part of the tower is still standing and can be seen in air views of the area on Local.live.com. This tower predates the existence of even the old Fox and can be seen in photos as far back as 1905 where it is identified as part of the Fulton and Flatbush Storage Company. Does anyone know anything about this “old” Fox Theatre?
I noticed a note from Jerry L. (11-9-05) saying he attended Pratt from 1952 to 1956 and was an artist. I also attended Pratt, but from 1953 to 1957. I was in the advertising dept. of the art school and I’m curious as to what you studied. I even have a yearbook from that class as I was friends with the art director, Shelley Streisand whose sister Barbra has since become fairly famous.
Did the Fox have a tall clock tower? I have seen different photos of the Brooklyn skyline with a tower identified as (1) the Fox Theater tower and as (2) the Fulton and Flatbush Storage Company tower.
I remember the rock and roll shows hosted by Murray the K. If only we could go back to those times.
I don’t believe that this one has been posted yet:
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