Radio Theatre
4113 13th Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
4113 13th Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
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The Radio was located in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn. It closed in the 1950s, and is today used for retail.
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I saw this building last week, and although retrofitted for retail use, the facade and the look of the corner building still leave little to the imagination that this was once a movie house.
The Radio was originally called The Royale Theatre. It was built sometime before World War One. I remember in the 1950’s it showed a great deal of old cowboy films. The theatre is now a mini market.
The address for the Radio Theatre AKA Royale, was 4113 13th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.
The Royal became the Radio in 1940, with seating capacity remaining the same at 420. The names were Royal and Radio, not The Royal and The Radio.
The main error was my mispelling of the original theatre’s name ROYAL(not Royale)-not my capitalizing of the definite article"the."
Above correction of typo- misspelling
In the American Motion Picture Directory 1914-1915 there is an Amoranth Theatre at 42nd Street and 13th Avenue. Could this be the first name for the Royal/Radio Theatre as ERD posted Feb 10 2004 that it was built ‘sometime before World War One’; and the location is pretty close to the 4113 13th Street address.
CRY OF FIRE IN MOVIE THROWS 600 IN PANIC; Boy Removes Radiator Cap and Steam, Mistaken for Smoke, Causes a Stampede. FOUR INJURED IN THE RUSH Brooklyn Theatre Manager and Two Aides Arrested—Must Explain Presence of Many Children.
NY Times December 7, 1930
A cry of fire, raised when steam began to escape from a radiator, caused an audience of 600 in the Royal Motion Picture Theatre, 4113 Thirteenth Avenue, Brooklyn, to rush madly for the exits during a performance at 2:30 P.M. yesterday. Four were injured slightly in the rush, requiring medical treatment.
The Radio was advertised in April, 1949, in the Broooklyn Daily Eagle with an address of 4114 13th Avenue. The current attraction was an Italian import, “Professor, My Son,” starring Aldo Fabrizi and shown with English subtitles. This was the “American Premiere,” according to the ad.
Royal was etched on top of the original facade of the building, so I believe that was it’s original name. The building is on the corner of forty-first street and thirteenth Avenue, so it could not have been the Amoranth theatre which is listed as being on forty-second street. That place must have been a short lived theatre. It is the first time I ever heard it mentioned.