Reo Theatre
375 Stone Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11212
375 Stone Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11212
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You could be right, Ed. It might just be an optical illusion. They’re very strangely shaped letters, IMHO.
I read that marquee is saying “REO,” Tinseltoes. I just think that image is so blurry and noisy that it might only appear to be spelling out “ABC.”
The Reo and Stone were almost next door to each other. Just a small store or two separated them. That gap has been filled by the retail conversions…And wasn’t the Reo also once known as the ABC? I’m posting a 1942 photo which suggests that.
The stone and reo was on stone ave(now mother gaston) between pitkin and belmont. Was still living in brownsville at the time when all the movies disappeared. The theaters mentioned were situated on the opposite side of the street from each other, the stone became a supermarket and the reo is a houseware store.The reo was my brother’s hangout on saturdays.
I can’t find another Singer Theater listed for Brooklyn on this site so I’ll post this here. A Kramer theater organ was installed in a Singer Theater in 1919. On 7/17/1925 a Wurlitzer opus 1105 style B X was installed in a Singer Theater in Brooklyn, NY. Maybe this theater was named Singer before it became the New Singer Theater.
Opened by the year 1926 and operating as the New Singer Theater until about 1930.
The theater that your probably thinking of is the Stone Theater which is also listing on this site. Click here:
/theaters/8425/
If my memory serves me correctly there were two theaters on Stone Ave next to one another. The Reo, I believe was used many times for fund raising for the IWO Jewish schools. Is there anyone still around that remembers this
The Reo Theatre is listed in the 1941 Film Daily Yearbook (address given as Pitkin & Stone). Later F.D.Y.’s give the correct address as listed here. Seating capacities vary from 516 to 596.
It is not listed in the 1957 edition of F.D.Y.
Ahh the Reo! I remember this theater being one of the big three.
Well not really big, but the most enjoyable. Growing up in the 50s
in Brownsville was a movie fans paradise.
The three movie houses I refer to were the Reo, Palace and the Peoples Cinema. These theaters always had three features, 5 to 10
cartoons, a short Joe behind the eightball or the three stoges. Not
to mention what we held our breath for every week. The Serial!!
You also had a newsreel and to top that off Previews of Coming
attractions. Now if this wasen’t wort 15 or 20 cents I guess I don't
know what is.
I also have a question on Saratoga Ave. and I believe it was Dean
street there was a small theater. I remember them showing silent
movies in the early 50s. If anyone can remember the name I would
like to know.
I believe that the Reo Theatre opened in the early 40’s and closed around 1955. It was located on the same street as the Stone Theatre which outlasted the Reo. The Stone Theatre is listed as closing around 1964.