Towne Theatre
327 Washington Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11201
327 Washington Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11201
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The Crystal Theatre opened in late 1925 (too late to be listed in the 1926 edition of Film Daily Yearbook) and was located on Washington Street in the Brooklyn Heights district of Brooklyn. (This street no longer exists but it was one block east of Court Street and Myrtle Avenue and one block west of Adams Street. In 1927 the address is given as Washington Street near Fulton Place).
In early 1940 it was re-named the Towne Theatre, but had disappeared from listings by 1957.
Any further information on this theatre would be appreciated.
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Unless there was another Crystal Theater in Brooklyn, this theater had a Wurlitzer organ opus 1177 style 109 installed on October 17, 1925. Status of organ: Repossessed by manufacturer.
As of 1937 it was still the Crystal Theater. TRIANGLE 5-6651 was the phone number.
This was advertised as the Towne Theatre in the March 7th, 1940 issue of the Brooklyn Eagle. It’s listed in the 1939 Film Daily Year Book as Crystal and in the 1940 edition as Towne.
The Towne was closed by January 1951, how much earlier I don’t know.I have a photo of the marquee from March 5, 1951 showing “Closed for Alterations” displayed with the letters i and o missing.
Attached is the 1951 picture of the Towne that JF referred to in the previous comment. It was the subject of some recent discussion on the Tivoli Theatre page where I, for one, initially mistakenly identified it as the Tivoli. But it is definitely the Towne.
This photo provides a snapshot of a brief era that occurred after the Fulton St. el had been razed but before this whole community was demolished and converted into the extremely banal Brooklyn Civic Center, as best typified by the uniquely ugly Supreme Court building.
The Towne was also situated in the immediate vicinity of the old, and long forgotten, Brooklyn Eagle Building.
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