Gayety Theatre
246-54 S. High Street,
Columbus,
OH
43215
246-54 S. High Street,
Columbus,
OH
43215
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Closed as the Knickerbocker, a second run downtown theatre, on 9/15/1946. Reopened as Gayety Burlesk on Friday, November 22, 1946, featuring Mitzie…“Pretty as a Picture and a Frame to Match” in Hello Columbus, also featureing Nadine, Paul West, Bartel & Scott, Zeb and Mandy and the California Sunkist Chorus.
Featured “Painless Prices~~Bring the Ladies, They’ll Scream!”
Looks like this site is now occupied by the City Center parking garage — the only successful part of the massive City Center shopping mall development, soon to be demolished.
I think that the date that the theatre was demolished given in the header might be incorrect. There are photos from 1982 showing the front of the theatre building and the Library of Congress photos still show the front of the building still in existance. Maybe it was the auditorium that was demolished in 1980.
The Gayety is listed in 1955 with 872 seats.
1982 photo of the Gayety Theatre.
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Here is a direct link to five photos at the Library of Congress.
A Wurlitzer theater organ opus 298 style 160 was installed in the Knickerbocker Theater on 3/29/1920.
The Gayety Theatre closed in 1955.
Further photos and information are available through a search at http://memory.loc.gov