Loew's Bedford Theatre
1372 Bedford Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11216
1372 Bedford Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11216
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That’s the one, Tinseltoes. Many thanks!
Loew’s Kameo, “rafaelstorm.” You should be able to find a listing for it at this website.
There was a theater on Eastern Parkway at the southwest corner of the intersecrion of Nostrand Avenue. The building is there, intact, as the Philadelphian Sabbatical Church, not far from this location. Anybody know what theater it was?
On this night only in 1948, Loew’s Bedford presented vaudeville on stage, topped by Ralph Slater, “The World’s Greatest Hypnotist.” Sharing the program was the current double bill of Columbia releases, the Technicolor “The Swordsman” starring Larry (“Jolson”) Parks, and the B&W “Her Husband’s Affairs,” with Lucille Ball and Franchot Tone.
Would like to see pictures of the MGM-LOEWS Carpet.
Nice looking building, too bad there are no pictures of when it was a LOEWS.
This was the building in 1970.
Here is a recent photo of the Church that occupies this former theater. This is another photo.
I must have passed by this place a few million times and never knew that it was a theatre.
A C/O was issued on a newly constructed building on March 16, 1926. Owner is listed as the Bedford Amusement Co. I’m guessing at the architects name. It appears to be C. M. Bampten.
A recent exterior view of the Bedford can be seen here:
http://www.disassociate.com/washington_church1.jpg
The Bedford was originally owned by Frank Keeney, who also operated vaudeville theatres in downtown Brooklyn and Bay Ridge. Keeney sold the Bedford to William Fox, who sold it to Loew’s in 1926 after Fox built the larger and more sumptuous Savoy further up on Bedford Avenue near Eastern Parkway.