Fox Theatre

I remember going to the FOX for the. Rock & Roll shows and the last film I saw there was Damn Yankees in 1959. Going to down town Brooklyn to see a film was a big deal.Back in the 50’s besides the FOX you had the Brooklyn Paramount, the Albee and Lowes Metropolitan. These theaters got the first run films after they played in New York City. After the runs there the films played the local neighborhood theaters.

There was a card(lobby card?) Frame(holder) seen on an episode of American Pickers(and some theatre seats too, possibly from the Fox Theatre too?). They brought the card holder, but not the theatre seats.

Excellent thanks for that link!

Click here for an exterior view of the Fox Theatre in 1929.

I have a promo album of Murray the K doing an Easter or holiday show from the Fox. Gene Pitney and a number of other great early rock stars are featured.

Thanks NittyRanks. What a terrific site. I was able to identify that the tracks shown in the 1933 photo belonged to the 5th Ave. elevated line that linked with the Fulton St. line in the north, and connected to the West End & 3rd Ave. lines going south. Had not been aware that these el lines existed.

Hadn’t realized that there were el tracks running on Flatbush Ave as shown in the 1933 photo listed above. Can anyone shed any light on which line that was and where it ended after going south on Flatbush? Can only make out a portion of those tracks in the 1929 photo as they appear to merge with the Fulton St. line.

I ushered at Fabian-Fox Theatre. While working the aisles, I caught glimpses of some pretty good films like, “The Harder They Fall,” and heard some pretty fair music like, Louie Armstrong, in concert with Woody Herman. In my idle hours, I organized/instigated the first, (and perhaps last) usher-strike. It was extremely short-lived, and as best as I recall, doomed-from-the-start. In the end though, we were all welcomed back on the floor. Ahhh, the good olde days!!!.

A little info on the brooklyn fox wurlitzer theatre organ. In gig harbor washington
The only thing that is left of the brookyn wurlitzer is its console. The rest of the organ
Was parted out in the early 70’s. By the time the organ got to the cardinal music palance
It was just the brooklyn console and the pipe work all came from grauman’s theatre
In los angeles. The same is true with the gig harbor washington installation. The brooklyn
Console & pipe’s from the grauman.

This photograph of the Fox Theatre was taken in 1929 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto and Mann.

Here’s a historic photo of the Fox:

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?112835

I saw three films at the Fox during the ‘60s: “The List Of Adrian Messinger” in 1963, “Topkapi” and “The Pink Panther” in 1964. I only remember that it was an enormous theater. However what I remember the most was coming out of the subway at Nevins St. each holiday season and seeing the teenagers lined up, sometimes surrounded by snow, for the Murray the K rock and roll shows. (I never did see one of these shows but my father did take me to an Alan Freed rock and roll show at the Brooklyn Paramount in, I believe, 1958.) The Fox theater was closed and replaced with an office building, Yessir, we needed more office buildings in New York.

Indeed my friend Luis; a wonderful photograph. I believe that the decay had begun in the 1960’s. The Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street area were in decline. The Brooklyn Fox Theatre holds fond memories. In particular the Murray Kaufman concerts. Both are gone and both are sorely missed.
George