Sayville Opera House
Candee Avenue,
Sayville,
NY
11782
Candee Avenue,
Sayville,
NY
11782
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Added photo from old postcard image.
Pete, you are correct. The Opera House was “in town” on the west side of the road just south of Main Street. The theater by the water was the Playhouse. See elsewhere on CT.
I don’t think this building was down by the water. I believe it was next to the Suffolk County News building. That’s what I had always read. Even the write up says it was south of Main street. The space the Opera House took became an access to the parking lot behind where it was.
The cost of the Opera House was $12,000. It’s interesting that some of the data at the Sayville Library indicated the Opera House burned down in 1930. Others say 1961. There is also a discrepancy about when pictures were first shown. But one thing I did find out was that the Playhouse Theatre was NOT another name for the Opera House. It was a separate identity. And, as such, I will create a new listing. Incidentally, fires were all too common in Sayville in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s wiping out many historical buildings. At the time of it’s “passing” the Opera House was a bowling alley – quite a come down from the 1922 write up above.