Sayville Theater
103 Railroad Avenue,
Sayville,
NY
11782
103 Railroad Avenue,
Sayville,
NY
11782
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Opened in the late-1920’s or early-1930’s when it had 500 seats, the Sayville Theater on Railroad Avenue in downtown Sayville was closed in the late-1940’s.
A new theater was built adjacent, designed by architects John Eberson and Drew Eberson opened in April 1951. It is one of the surviving downtown theaters. Nicely maintained, the theater brings you back to a simpler time before the multiplexes.
I don’t know too much on the history of the Sayville Theatre, however, at some point it was divided into four screens.
It’s one of the few theaters nowadays where for $12 you can get the movie ticket, a medium popcorn, and a drink all included.
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Is this place still showing movies? Every time I go by, it never has movies on the marquee, and says “something” coming soon or by some date.
It always looks lit up, but unless they only rely on the posters, no movie is ever on the marquee.
The second Sayville Theatre was opened by Prudential Theatres in April, 1951. It was designed by John and Drew Eberson. Photos of both the interior and exterior of the house were featured in an ad for Heywood-Wakefield theater seats in Boxoffice of December 8, 1951.
Am I correct that these same persons also designed the Brookhaven in Port Jefferson Station. From the exterior they looked identical.
Yes, the Sayville and Brookhaven theaters were both designed by John and Drew Eberson.
These two have a large number of theatres to their credit. Were they exclusively LI, NY, east coast?
The Ebersons were based in New York, and the majority of their work was in the east, but they designed theaters as far away as South America and Australia. Their papers are in the Wolfsonian collection in Florida. Click this link to see the basic information about the collection, and from that page you can download the PDF file of the Finding Aid for a list of their work. It includes biographical information.
I forgot to mention the Project Index at the Wolfsonian. It’s an Excel spreadsheet program, and contains the names and locations of all their projects, including work other than theaters.
To amend my most recent comment, I should say the spreadsheet has all those of their projects that are represented in the Wolfsonian’s archive collection. You can see from the spreadsheet’s “job number” column that many of their projects didn’t make it into the archive.
This picture of the Sayville entrance appeared on the cover of the Modern Theatre section of Boxoffice magazine, March 7, 1953:
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ANYONE KNOW WHO OWNS IT NOW?