Peerless Theater
433 Myrtle Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11205
433 Myrtle Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11205
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This was a small neighborhood theater on the north side of Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn. The Peerless Theater was opened in 1914. Located under the elevated rail line which ran from Metropolitan Avenue in Queens County to Sand Street Station in downtown Brooklyn, which was an elevated rail hub where one could transfer to trolleys and change for another El train which ran over the Brooklyn Bridge to New York. Some trains ran through over the Bridge on this line.
A surface trolley route, the Myrtle-Court line, ran by the door on the surface. It was riding these lines that I became familiar with this theater in the late-1940’s. At that time it was quite old and worn. It was far down on the distribution scheme and was part of the Interboro chain. The Peerless Theatre was closed in 1965.
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J.F. Lundy
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Here is a photo of the old Peerless Theater taken in 1969, when from the old Myrtle Ave el. The theater IS in fact the same building as Ken Roe photographed in 2005, with links above…. It’s a spectacular photo of the old building, the old marquee abandoned, but still there….
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Very LARGE thx (as WABC DJ Big Dan Ingram used to say) to Fixer3 & Bway for posting those photo links to the Peerless Theater! With only two days away from being back in the borough for the holidays, those pix took me back many years. Wow!
Telephone number for the Peerless in 1940 was CUmbrlnd 6-2390.
Thx for that interesting item of trivia, ken, although I believe it was upgraded in the late 1940s. I’ll try to check further on that. My home exchange a block away in 1946 was Main, and my cousin’s (who lived several blocks away on Cumberland) was Sterling. Ulster was another common to the Clinton Hill area.
The first telephone number that I ever memorized was ULster 5-4826; Tony The Tailor; 437 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn 5, New York.That number was good from 1956 until December 31, 2002. Two doors East of the Peerless Theater. The theater is owned and operated by the “Reverend Lee”….and it’s just like new inside.
The year given for this photo is 1980.
I would assume as a church, much of it’s interior remains?
ALL of the interior remains!
Anyone know of any current photos of the interior?
Anyway, here’s a corrected link for the photo above, the link changed:
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ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW!!!!!FOUND THIS SITE BY ACCIDENT…
LIVED AT 139 CLINTON AVE FROM 1940-1952…UL 2 0721..
DAD OWNED CLERMONT LOUNGE MA 5 8982…
ELKIS CANDY STORE ON CLINTON N MYRTLE..YES HE WAS A GROUCH…DANIELLS CANDY STORE ON CORNER OF WAVERLY…GOLDMAN GROCERY ON MYRTLE N CLINTON..SACRED HEART SCHOOL…THE PEERLES WAS CALLED THE"ITCH"….REMEMBER FRANK AND HIS BROTHER…OWNERS…DISHES ON SAT..THEY WLD WALK UP THE AISLES SELLING POPCORN…
ANYONE WANT TO TALK???