Loew’s Delancey

From the windows of the new Regal Essex 14 multiplex a glimpse of the old–the remains of the Loew’s Delancey.

Motography, April 1911:
“Plans have been filed by George A. Boehm, architect, for a moving picture theater to be erected at Delancey and Suffolk streets, New York City, for Ellen G. Gilbert at a cost of $40,000.”

This earlier building was not completed. The Loew’s Delancey opened March 1912 with a seating capacity of 1788, S. S. Sugar architect.

Alterations were carried out in 1918 by Thomas Lamb, job book 1136.

1940 Tax Photo

 

Motion Picture Herald, February 26, 1938:
“Eye-arresting indeed was Albert Gutterman’s ‘The Last Gangster’ display at Loew’s Delancey Theatre, N. Y. C., representing a prison with large headlights and dummy machine guns mounted over all. Display was designed and created by H. Cooke of Gutterman’s staff.”

 

Loew’s Delancey, 1978 Photo: Museum of the City of New York

 

The theatre closed June 1977 with the ground floor converted to stores.

 

Since 1997 theatre historian,  Cezar Del Valle, has conducted a popular series of  theatre talks and walks, available for  historical societies, libraries, senior centers, etc.

Del Valle is the author of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, a three-volume history of borough theatres.

The first two chosen 2010 OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR by the Theatre Historical Society. Final volume published in September 2014.

Editing and updating the third edition of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, Volume I.

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Regal Essex 14 & RPX

The Lower East Side has a new 14-screen multiplex. Opened April 6, 2019, at 129 Delancey Street, the Regal Essex 14 & RPX is part of Essex Crossings, a mix-use development in the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.

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Bowery Boogie

The Lo-Down

 

 

 

Since 1997 theatre historian,  Cezar Del Valle, has conducted a popular series of  theatre talks and walks, available for  historical societies, libraries, senior centers, etc.

Del Valle is the author of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, a three-volume history of borough theatres.

The first two chosen 2010 OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR by the Theatre Historical Society. Final volume published in September 2014.

Editing and updating the third edition of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, Volume I.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

Exterior decorations, terra-cotta and cornice, 2017. Photos Betty Sword

 

 

BAM

 

Since 1997 theatre historian,  Cezar Del Valle, has conducted a popular series of  theatre talks and walks, available for  historical societies, libraries, senior centers, etc.

Del Valle is the author of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, a three-volume history of borough theatres.

The first two chosen 2010 OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR by the Theatre Historical Society. Final volume published in September 2014.

Editing and updating the third edition of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, Volume I.

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Joyce Theatre by Joseph Peller

Born in Toronto, Joseph Peller currently resides in New York City where he teaches Painting and Composition at the Art Students League.

Theatre Crowd in the Rain Oil On Linen 30 X 44 In. ©  the Artist and Roberts Gallery

 

Summer Evening, 2014, Oil on linen, 34 x 50 inches,  ACA Galleries, New York

 

The Joyce Theater is located in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood at 175 Eighth Avenue.

Opening in 1941 as the Elgin movie theatre, the building was gut-renovated and reconfigured in 1981-82 to reopen as the Joyce Theatre, a leading presenter of dance in New York City.

From the theatre’s website:
“One of the only theaters built by dancers for dance, The Joyce Theater has garnered a well-deserved international reputation for cultivating and honoring emerging and established dance artists whose work represents a wide range of aesthetic interests.”

 

 

Since 1997 theatre historian,  Cezar Del Valle, has conducted a popular series of  theatre talks and walks, available for  historical societies, libraries, senior centers, etc.

Del Valle is the author of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, a three-volume history of borough theatres.

The first two chosen 2010 OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR by the Theatre Historical Society. Final volume published in September 2014.

Editing and updating the third edition of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, Volume I.

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This is Baby Doll

Motion Picture Herald, October 20, 1956:

“For ‘Baby Doll’: Warners this week completed its sign, probably the largest amusement display ever, for the run at the Victoria, Times Square, New York.”

“Warner publicists  put its size this way: a third of an acre.”

 

Since 1997 theatre historian,  Cezar Del Valle, has conducted a popular series of  theatre talks and walks, available for  historical societies, libraries, senior centers, etc.

Del Valle is the author of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, a three-volume history of borough theatres.

The first two chosen 2010 OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR by the Theatre Historical Society. Final volume published in September 2014.

Editing and updating the third edition of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, Volume I.

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Baby Born in Circleville

 

Original Description:
Amusements, Circleville, Ohio

Photographer: Ben Shahn
1938

United States Farm Security Administration

Excerpts from Today in Civil Liberties History, April 11, 1938:
“Life magazine published 35 photographs from the public health education film, Birth of a  Baby. Some moralist on this day called the pictures ‘obscene.'”

“The film The Birth of a Baby, from which the photographs were taken, was banned in New York, Cincinnati, Omaha, and Lynchburg, Virginia. The New York State censorship board found the film ‘indecent,’ ‘immoral’, and likely ‘to corrupt morals.’ It did, however, approve a special license to show the film for ‘educational purposes,’ but not in ‘places of amusement.'”

 

From The Birth of a Baby, Iconic Photos

 

Since 1997 theatre historian,  Cezar Del Valle, has conducted a popular series of  theatre talks and walks, available for  historical societies, libraries, senior centers, etc.

Del Valle is the author of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, a three-volume history of borough theatres.

The first two chosen 2010 OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR by the Theatre Historical Society. Final volume published in September 2014.

Editing and updating the third edition of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, Volume I.

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Going to the Movies in Elkins

Photographer: John Vachon

June 1939

United States Farm Security Administration

 

Hippodrome Theatre
Davis Avenue, Elkins, WV

Original Description:
“There are two movies in town, both offer games of chance, win a dollar, three nights a week.”

 

Manos Theatre
205 Davis Avenue, Elkins, WV

Original Description:
“There are two movies in town, both offer games of chance three nights a week to drum up trade on slack nights.”

 

Outside These Walls

 

 

Since 1997 theatre historian,  Cezar Del Valle, has conducted a popular series of  theatre talks and walks, available for  historical societies, libraries, senior centers, etc.

Walks also available at Local Expeditions

Del Valle is the author of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, a three-volume history of borough theatres.

The first two chosen 2010 OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR by the Theatre Historical Society. Final volume published in September 2014.

Editing and updating the third edition of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, Volume I.

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