An earlier poster mentioned the Variety’s Boys Club Christmas parties that were held at the Brooklyn Theater back in the day. I went to a couple of them as a member of the club as a 5th and 6th grader in the early 60’s.
They had a crying room for mom’s with babies in which alot of us 8/9/10 year olds would sneak into to get
a new perspective on the movies that we had been watching all day.
The Brooklyn was more of place to meet the girls from our school (Sheridan Elementary School) down the street. For most of us it was where we experienced our
first kiss and “made out” as much as we were able to. The ushers tried to control the pre-adolescent crowd by blinding us with their flashlights. We just moved to another location where they couldn’t see us.
Wednesdays or Thursdays were when families attended being drawn in with a 2 for 1 admission.We would walk to the Brooklyn from our converted garage on Mott street about 5 blocks away. That place is still there.
Notable movies that we saw there on Saturdays were “The Hustler”, “Days of Wine and Roses”, “Psycho” and
alot of “Three Stooges” shorts. They generally had a more mature marquee where kids like me learned to appreciate good acting and great films. I think this was before they tried to address the changing demographics in the area. There were still many lingering Jewish families in the area and they would just have special nights a couple times a month to show Mexican cinema.
The Brooklyn Theater was definitely a neighborhood institution.
My cousins and I went around the Boyle Heights theater circuit in the late 50’s and early 60’s.I recall watching Elvis Presley’s “King Creole” there (which I hated) and also great movies like Vincent Price’s “Tingler” and Ray Milland in “The Man with the X-Ray Eyes”. The sci-fi/horror flicks were what all of us kids went for. A vivid memory was watching “Teenage Frankenstein” at the Meralta in color and that cool aqua blue t-shirt that the monster wore. Loved that place.
Most of our Saturday’s were spent at the Brooklyn and Sunday’s at the Meralta.
An earlier poster mentioned the Variety’s Boys Club Christmas parties that were held at the Brooklyn Theater back in the day. I went to a couple of them as a member of the club as a 5th and 6th grader in the early 60’s.
They had a crying room for mom’s with babies in which alot of us 8/9/10 year olds would sneak into to get a new perspective on the movies that we had been watching all day.
The Brooklyn was more of place to meet the girls from our school (Sheridan Elementary School) down the street. For most of us it was where we experienced our first kiss and “made out” as much as we were able to. The ushers tried to control the pre-adolescent crowd by blinding us with their flashlights. We just moved to another location where they couldn’t see us.
Wednesdays or Thursdays were when families attended being drawn in with a 2 for 1 admission.We would walk to the Brooklyn from our converted garage on Mott street about 5 blocks away. That place is still there.
Notable movies that we saw there on Saturdays were “The Hustler”, “Days of Wine and Roses”, “Psycho” and alot of “Three Stooges” shorts. They generally had a more mature marquee where kids like me learned to appreciate good acting and great films. I think this was before they tried to address the changing demographics in the area. There were still many lingering Jewish families in the area and they would just have special nights a couple times a month to show Mexican cinema.
The Brooklyn Theater was definitely a neighborhood institution.
My cousins and I went around the Boyle Heights theater circuit in the late 50’s and early 60’s.I recall watching Elvis Presley’s “King Creole” there (which I hated) and also great movies like Vincent Price’s “Tingler” and Ray Milland in “The Man with the X-Ray Eyes”. The sci-fi/horror flicks were what all of us kids went for. A vivid memory was watching “Teenage Frankenstein” at the Meralta in color and that cool aqua blue t-shirt that the monster wore. Loved that place.
Most of our Saturday’s were spent at the Brooklyn and Sunday’s at the Meralta.