Comments from Ken Roe

Now I am getting confused here!! The link you posted as an ‘actual ariel photo’ actually shows an ariel view of the Century’s College Theatre, 1584 Flatbush Avenue listed on CT here: /theaters/3871/

The Century’s Linden Theatre has always been listed as 1260 Nostrand Avenue in Film Daily Yearbooks and had a seating capacity of 1,447 (now demolished). There was also another Linden Theatre, 815 Flatbush Avenue with 1,000 seats, listed on CT here: /theaters/7702/

The theatre on this page….the Mardi Gras Theatre, 1295 Nostrand Avenue (listed at this address in the American Motion Picture Directory 1914-1915) would have had a seating capacity of no more than 400. As it closed in 1915 I doubt that there are many alive today that would remember it operating as a movie theatre.

Listed in the Film Daily Yearbook;1950 edition as the Opera House with a seating capacity of 946.

Originally opened as the Opera House. Later operating as the Falls Cinema & New Falls Cinema for many years, it has now been refurbished and re-named the Bellows Falls Opera House. Plans are going ahead to refurbish the stage and backstage areas so that live perfomances will be able to take place again to complement to film performances.

A photograph of the Semiramis Cinema by Joshua Partlow—The Washington Post:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/218023574/

The photograph showing a theatre on Rockwell Place shows the Strand Theater, located at 647 Fulton Street and Rockwell Place. It’s most interesting feature, still to be seen today is the Romanesque exterior facade. See… /theaters/1407/

J.F.Lundy….The Mardi Gras Theatre was never the Century/Linden Theater. That was located at 1260 Nostrand Avenue, had a seating capacity of 1,447 and has now been demolished. It has its own listing here on CinemaTreasures… /theaters/6322/

Perhaps you would care to re-post your most interesting comments above onto the Century/Linden Theater page and so help to build up a history of that theatre.

Listed in the 1926 and 1927 editions of Film Daily Yearbook as the Reo Theatre with a seating capacity of 600. In the 1930 edition of F.D.Y. it is listed as the 600 seat Reo and is (Closed).

There is no theatre listed as operating at this address in the 1941 F.D.Y. (I don’t have edition between 1931-1940 to verify if it was open during those years). However in the 1943 edition of F.D.Y. it is listed as the Wagner Theatre with a seating capacity of 510. Still listed as operating as the wagner Theatre in 1950 with 550 seats. By 1957 it has gone from listings in Film Daily Yearbook, but must have re-opened as a porn cinema which went into the late 1960’s.

A play by David Barth ‘Hard Right’ was being staged at the Players Theatre when I took this photograph in May 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/217086443/

A photograph I took of the Anthology Film Archives in May 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/216993575/

A photograph I took of the 8th Street Playhouse in May 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/216865155/

The auditorium remains pretty well intact within the building in its current use as a TLA video store and orininal film posters and calendars from its movie theatre days adorn the walls of the former foyer lobby area.

A photograph of the Mardi Gras Theatre taken in the 1990’s:
http://www.disassociate.com/portland_mart.jpg

Here are some current May 2006 photographs I took of the building:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/216732576/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/216732846/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/216733003/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/216733264/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/216733529/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/216733739/

A photograph I took of the Village East Cinemas in May 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/216027595/

The New York Post – online edition, lists it as ‘The Pavilion’

The Big Screen Cinema Guide (online), lists it as ‘Access Digital Theatres-Pavilion Cinema’

A recent (August 2006) photograph:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zonca/214891039/