Vogue Theatre
1455 Coney Island Avenue,
Midwood,
Brooklyn,
NY
11230
1455 Coney Island Avenue,
Midwood,
Brooklyn,
NY
11230
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This former theatre building stands on Coney Island Avenue in the Midwood section of Brooklyn and was originally called the Manor Theatre. It opened on October 15, 1925. Taken over by Loew’s Inc, in August 1927, it was renamed Loew’s Manor Theatre. Taken over by the Century Theatres chain in 1928, it was renamed Vogue Theatre in 1937.
The Vogue Theatre was closed in 1956, and the theatre building was gutted in 1958, and a home for senior citizens was built inside its empty hulk.
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philipgoldberg, Warren
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As I remember it, the Vogue was the first neighborhood theatre to show foreign films after World War II. My teenage friends and I were thrilled to see Italian and French movies with subtitles—and especially a Russian film called “The Stone Flower”. We had such a crush on its hero that I even remember his name: Vladimir Druzhnekov! So to us The Vogue Theater was our special schoolhouse—a place that made us feel worldly and sophisticated.
Francesca
First listed in Film Daily Yearbook;1927 edition. It was the Manor Theatre with a seating capacity given as 1,700.
A March 1947 ad for Century’s Vogue as art cinma. I love that NIghtingale phone exchange:
www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/vogue47.jpg
On March 30, 1926 a c/o was issued to a New building at this address for a 1771 seat motion picture theater. The first c/o that I can find for a nursing home at this address is dated April 15, 1958. The nursing home could have opened prior to that date. I wonder why this theater isn’t listed in the 1926 FDYbook.
A 1947 exterior from the Vogue’s “art house” period. The movies are the French “The Queen’s Necklace” and the Russian “The Road Home”:
www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/bkvogue.jpg
Thank you, Warren for your photo of the Vogue. I passed it on to my childhood friend Rose who is now living in Oregon, who, I’m sure will remember our teenage stabs at sophistication —watching fabulous foreign movies at this lovely theatre. Francesca
A couple of photographs I took in June 2006(apologies for the delivery truck out front which seemed to be going nowhere fast!):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/193536547/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/193537151/
An odd double bill
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Great 1947 photo of the Vogue. Too bad that the structure that replaced it is so nondescript and adds nothing to the streetscape.
We lived on East 10th between L and M, right around the block. I remember when the Vogue closed. It sat there closed for a while before they did the alteration. A lot of theatres were closing in those days, but in our neighborhood the Midwood and the Elm survived. I’m quite sure the conversion to an old age home was done in the mid-1950s, not the early 1960s.