Winston Theatre
11 Clinton Street,
New York,
NY
10002
11 Clinton Street,
New York,
NY
10002
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What remains of 11 Clinton Street 2016. From the Google Map.
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/13523/photos/238292
Warren Harris is no longer active on this site. He took the links with him when he left.
Mr. warren G Harris. were those links to actual PICS of the Winston Theater? Wow. They seem to be dead now. Can U re upload or inbox me with them. I’d appreciate it. It’s for a page of the Lower east Side we’re working on. TY.
Seems to me that the status of this theater should be updated to “Demolished.” It looks like the facade seen in the street view above is nothing but a brick wall, behind which there appears to be an accessory lot for one of the adjoining buildings.
I remember this theater growing up on the lower east side – I lived in the projects on Columbia Street and Houston Street. My friends and I used to go there and spend the day for less than $.75 on at least 2 movies and it included the popcorn and the drink. I have fond memories of this place. later in life as a teenager I worked in a movie theater in Brooklyn NY called the Granada on Church Avenue off of Nostrand- I guess the theater was in my blood. Thanks for the memories.
I went to movies at that theater, on the west side of Clinton Street just below Houston, at least once a week in the early-mid 1960s. At that time it was known as the Winston. Admission was cheap, seventy-five cents, for two movies. As I recall, the fare was a mixture of 1950s and 1960s films, I would say A and B type films.
I went to the Palestine/Winston when I grew up on the Lower East Side. They played a lot of sci-fi movies, such as ‘War of the World" w/Gene Barry & “When Worlds Collide” by George Pal. On the corner of Houston & Clinton, there was a lunchonette, where we got lime rickeys and pretzels.
The NYT had the theater in the wrong borough in this July 1951 article:
2 BANDITS ROB THEATRE; Brooklyn Telegraph Office Also Held Up by Lone Raider
Two armed men held up the manager of the Palestine Theatre, 11 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon, bound and gagged him and got $377 from the office safe.
Into the 60’s the Palestine was renamed the Winston.
Cool, Warren!
This brought me back.
I could have sworn it was on Avenue B, but the facts speak louder (and clearer) than memories.
CORRECTION: I meant Avenue B (NOT Second Avenue)
My memory must be playing tricks on me: I remember the Palestine Movie being on Second Avenue. i went there often in 1953-54 to see double features, mostly black and white 30’s and 40’s classics (never first runs).
The Palestine on Clinton Street just a few steps South off Houston Street had a name change in the early 1960’s, it became the Winston. It was still around during the 1970’s.
I think you’re mistaken. The theater you must be thinking of is the Apollo Theater, which was just south of the Williamsburg Bridge on Clinton Street. It was right next to a police station, and closed
either in the late 1940’s or the early 1950’s. It is listed on this Website.
If this is the theater I recall, it was very close to the Williamsburg Bridge and informally called the “Clinton Street Theater”. It was small and off to the east of the Loew’s Delancy and Ratner’s bakery shop.
Ron,
I don,t remember the exact movies I saw there, but I know it did not have the first run movies that the big movie chains had. I also remember especially the 15 part serials of Batman, Superman , Dick Tracy that many other movie theaters in the area showed, especially in the late 1940’s. On the Lower East Side you had the Ave B, American Movie, Palestine, Loews Delancy, and the Apollo.
With this name, did it show films (or live shows) of primarily Jewish interest?
Who located this theater? I’ve been asking about it under the Academy of Music. In the late 1960’s it still existed as a movie theater. Does anyone know when it closed?