Embassy 1 Theatre
1560 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
1560 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
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Many new york city landmark theatres photos available at https://nyclandmarks.lunaimaging.com/ll/index.html which also includes this theatre.
When “The People’s Court” was produced in Manhattan, the entrance to the Embassy was where the public was asked their opinions on cases.
Please update, theatre closed December 11, 1997
Grand opening ads posted.
Only went here twice that I can remember- once in 92 for Noises Off and once right before it closed to see The Full Monty. I remembered thinking it was too bad I hadn’t gone more often because it was a cute little theater.
Good grief, the place is now “Pelé Soccer, The World’s Greatest Soccer Store.”
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Pics posted.
When I went to the visitors center I was impressed by all the showcases which had housed the movie posters in the long corridor and how low the ceiling of the auditorium was. The original ceiling was there and the sloping floor also intact.
Saul Smaizys 1977 photo via Flickr. Image will enlarge in link.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ceebop/24324876655/in/album-72157662523920010/
Numerous views of midtown theatres, starting with the Embassy Newsreel, can be seen in this B&W film footage from December, 1929
1955 photo added via Al Ponte’s Time Machine-New York Facebook page
I thought that was still the 60s as late as it was which you can tell buy the shortness of the skirts.
I think you mean “Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting” and that was summer of 1969. The summer of love.
Can anybody figure out the film playing in the ‘71 photo? I thought that the Coke sign had been modernized by '70.
Shorpy link with the 1947 photo which can be enlarged.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/19310
1937 photo as the Newsreel Theatre added. 13th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Photo credit Walter Kelleher.
Brief video of Broadway in late 1929, beginning with a shot of the Embassy Newsreel and proceeding up the street to the Strand. Go here <warning: autoplay audio>, click on “Sound”, find “Noise Abatement Commission” in the far right column toward the bottom and click there.
From what I remember of that time and I was so young and went to so few presentations as it was at the point when first run Times Square houses were turning to exploitation films was that roadshow movie houses along with Broadway theaters had female ushers.
Men in tuxedoes sold the souvenir programs. I remember this from when the Rivoli showed Fiddler and the Criterion showed MFL in ‘71.
And I only remember usherettes at legitimate theaters though now it is kind of hazy. Maybe somebody who was going to Broadway shows and roadshow movies during the 50s and 60s could clarify this.
Myron, we here have known about its closing since Ed Solero’s post back on July 7, 2014, nearly 18 months ago…
Sadly, the theatre was secretly closed. It had been restored as a Visitors Center and gift shop. It featured the actual New Year’s Ball. It is now closed and I believe it will be a McDonalds although the interior was landmarked. This should be looked into.
1938 photo added courtesy of Al Ponte’s Time Machine – New York Facebook page.
1953 photo added, photo credit Samuel Gottscho.
1964 photo added, photo credit National Geographic Magazine.
Two photos added. 06/06/1944 photo copyright Howard Hollem. 1959 photo copyright Dave Gelinas.
StanMalone it was very small but comfortable theater. I saw All That Jazz there and one other film. They had great curtains that opened and closed during the previews and before the main feature .
This place would make a great cabaret/piano bar type performance space.