Sun Sing Theatre
75-85 East Broadway,
New York,
NY
10002
75-85 East Broadway,
New York,
NY
10002
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This theatre was located under the Manhattan Bridge and it is now demolished.
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New direct links to images described in post above of 7/30/07:
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Thank you, Warren.
In the mid 1920s the Florence Theater was operated by the M & S Chain. Jacobs was probably one of the partners in this extended network, so was Rosenzweig. There was no Yiddish vaudeville theater on this location in 1911. We would expect an ethnically mixed audience indeed but the owners were Jewish and they advertised for this theater in the Yiddish press.
By the way, Yiddish vaudeville did extend well beyond Houston Street, actually most of the Yiddish music halls were in the area below East Houston and north of East Broadway.
I agree with Warren’s post of August 3, 2007 that this opened in 1921 as the New Strand.
http://www.collamer-jones.com/tang/Nychina.html
I worked on this film in 1981.We shot inside the Sun Sing and a year later saw the movie there.
@ Warren G. Harris, your 3 picture links posted in 2008 are not viewable. PHOTO BUCKET MESSAGE: Page not found But now that you’re here, go ahead and search through the billions of photos, images and videos on Photobucket. If you can post links again it would be greatly appreciated. That movie house was one of the many my friends went to in the 60’s and 70’s.
I read an article in the December 3 1923 New York Times that the receipts were stolen by two “Highwaymen”. The receipts were from the Florence theater on West Broadway and the Atlantic Gardens theatre on the Bowery. They hijacked the taxi cab which was carrying the couriers to deposit the money in the safe at the Delancey Street Theater on Orchard Street.
I also read of a Florence Theater on 331 or 321 Bowery Street if anyone has any info on this,it seems interesting. I did a zip code check and nothing turned up on 10002, thanks.
FatMan, if you read previous posts you will find your answer.
Thanks for the photo, LostMemory, wherever you are.