Wagner Theater
110 Wyckoff Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11237
110 Wyckoff Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11237
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Does anyone know what the years German films were played, then Spanish and finally porno? The above post mentions porno in 1969 but I’m not sure about that. I do remember after the Wagner closed the Oasis and Ridgewood sometimes booked a German film one weekday or a few times ran a German print of their current feature.
Here’s a current view of the former Wagner Theater site taken today.
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The theater is now demolished and replaced with this modern building, Women’s Health Clinic.
In 69 I saw porno flicks at this movie house the place was run down and filthy
My father was a Sunday afternoon regular at the Wagner during the 50’s. Sometimes I would go with him, especially since I had German as a foreign language in high school and needed exposure to the language. As I recall, the interior of the theater was rather plain and nondescript and typical of most neighborhood theaters of the time. The lobby was very small and the restrooms were upstairs right next to the projection booth. They were reached by a staircase in the right rear of the auditorium. Sometimes the booth door would be open and I would be in my glory watching the projectionist do his thing. Do recall that the theater, being relatively small, had an intimate feeling to it.
The Wagner played double features with a short subject and the German version of the Fox newsreel, which was called “Fox Tonnende Wochenschau”, which translates as “Fox Movietone News”. Never had any German cartoons though.
Can anyone tell me what The Wagner was like inside? My grandmother went every week when they had German films there.
For those present and former Bushwick and Ridgewood residents who wish to express their condolences and get-well wishes to Monsignor James Kelly of St. Brigid parish, the address is :
St. Brigid Rectory
409 Linden Street
Brooklyn, New York 11237
Thanks PGZ for the correction. The last sentence of my entry should therefore read (with an additional correction) “The theater was either demolished or completely refaced with orange colored brick in the front and the side on Stockholm Street.” DeKalb Avenue is the street on the opposite end of the block.
The theatre was actually located on the corner of Wyckoff Ave and Stockholm Street, not Dekalb Ave. My family ran Italian films there on Sundays for 15 years during the 70’s and early 1980’s. Seating was 440, probably reduced from the original 556.
Drove past 110 Wyckoff Avenue the other day and very little if anything is left of the Wagner Theater. The space is now occupied by the Women’s Health Center, which is probably associated with the nearby Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. The existing building bears very little resemblance to the theater. The theater was either demolished or completely refaced with white brick in the front and the side on Dekalb Avenue.
The Wagner Theater stood at Wyckoff and Dekalb Avenues in the Wyckoff Heights section of Brooklyn, adjacent to Ridgewood and Bushwick. The Wyckoff Heights Bklyn NY post office (zone 11237) is nearby. In the late 1960’s it had become pornographic, showing such cinematic “gems” as “Devil’s Bed” and “Let’s Play Doctor”. I am pleased to read that it is now a community performing arts theater.
Most of it’s life The Wagner showed German films, since Ridgewood had a huge German population at that time. It is now a community performing arts theatre.
The Wagner Theatre was located at 110 Wyckoff Ave. and it seated 556 people.