Quentin Theater
3502 Quentin Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11234
3502 Quentin Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11234
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This theater was very small and closed a long, long time ago. But the building is still there, and at one time was a jeans store. The auditorium is currently being converted into batting cages, set to open in July 2004.
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If this building is going to be a batting cage center, nothing was apparent when I drove past yesterday.
The address is 3502 Quentin Road. A C/O was issued for a new building at this address on October 30, 1933. Purpose of building: 600 seat motion picture theater.
The Quentin was an important part of my young life in the late 1940’s. On a Sunday afternoon, you could walk to and enjoy two attractive features plus a Three Stooge or other comedy short. Those double features â€" WOW! â€" very kid friendly. Parings such as: King Kong and The Son of King Kong, Dracula and The Son of Dracula, Texas and Arizona, Henry Aldrich Haunts a House and Henry Aldrich â€" Boy Scout, Abbott & Costello in Buck Privates and Abbott and Costello â€" In The Navy and on and on.
The Quentin was also a good place to catch a film before it left circulation.
I spent many afternoons there. On a hot summer day you could walk across Quentin Rd. to De Leo’s Bar to stand in the doorway and feel the cooler, beer scented air from inside while you watched the marvel of TELEVISION! Adults seldom chased you away. The only things wrong with De Leo’s was that we were too young to go inside and that they usually ran Giant games. Can you imagine â€" Giant games — in Brooklyn?
BROOKLYN THEATRE SOLD; Quentin and Four Stores Bought by J. C. Mayer
NY Times March 17, 1938
The Quentin Theatre, on the corner of Quentin Road and East Thirty-fifth Street, Brooklyn, has been purchased by Jerome C. Mayer from the Hanswald Realty Corporation for cash above a purchase money mortgage of $12,500 running for fifteen years.
Great memories, my mother was a cashier so I got in for free, saved all of 10 cents. The theatre was the baby sitter of the times, what great chapters they had, you had to go next week to see what happened. Eddie Norton used to sell the pink edition of the news for 2 cents after the last show. Go to Kremers ice cream parlor on the corner for the best ice cream in town. Then when you got older you graduated to DeLeos across the street. I had some great friends, some of them are gone now but not fogotten. If only we could turn the clock back, what a great time we had.
Ray C.
Judging by the street view, it appears the building has burned. The Batting cage sign is still up, but if you go to the side, it appears to have burnt windows on the second floor, and boarded up.
Can someone please tell this young senior what a battling cage is? Is it for kickboxing/martial arts? LMAO!
I would think baseball.
A batting cage is where you can practice hitting a baseball. Balls are shot at you and you try to hit them.
Well, that makes a whole lot of sense. Thanks for teaching me something today!