Doll Theater

719 7th Avenue,
New York, NY 10036

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Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on September 12, 2006 at 3:58 pm

Correction: RATAS DEL ASFALTO at the Cine and SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER at the Embassy make it most likely 1978.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on September 12, 2006 at 3:55 pm

I had my doubts whether the Doll showed movies but that photo in RobertR’s first post proves it. SUMMER OF SUZANNE dates it to 1976 if it was a recent release.

Ed Solero
Ed Solero on September 12, 2006 at 11:45 am

Sorry… the east side of the block.

Ed Solero
Ed Solero on September 12, 2006 at 11:44 am

This listing (along with the Mayfair/Demille and Cine 1 & 2) now completes the west side of the block on 7th Avenue between 47th and 48th Street. All those little Times Square nooks and crannies are slowly being filled in, thanks in large part to RobertR.

Ed Solero
Ed Solero on September 12, 2006 at 11:28 am

I remember this theater, RobertR. Great photo. I recall my friends and I strolling down 7th Ave from the 53rd Street IND station into Times Square and being beckoned by the theater’s street hawker to go on in and have a great time. We were maybe 15 or 16 first time that happened!

After ending the Spanish language policy, the adjacent Cine 1 & 2 became the porn palace Show Follies sometime in the late ‘80’s and featured a mix of live nude reviews and XXX films in 4 auditoriums on a 24 hour grind lasting into the early '90’s. It looked like a sister of the Show World facility over on 8th Ave and 42nd so it might have also been run by local porn king Richard Basciano.

RobertR
RobertR on September 12, 2006 at 12:18 am

The Doll in it’s heydey
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