I am so happy to at last learn about the theatre of my childhood. I was six years old in 1962 when we moved to nearby Franklin ave in Bklyn. The Savoy theatre on Bedford ave was only a couple of blocks away. I’m sure I caught “Jason & the Argonauts” there as well as possibly a Cartoon? There were double features there but indeed the neiborhood had slowly began to change and the Apt. buildings nearby hit rock bottom so quickly -and we’re talking “1963”! As the Savoy mysteriously closed my brother & I had to venture down Eastern Parkway to that other theatre on “Nostrand ave” which picked up the lost revenue of the late great “Savoy” theatre. R. Clinton
I am so happy to at last learn about the theatre of my childhood. I was six years old in 1962 when we moved to nearby Franklin ave in Bklyn. The Savoy theatre on Bedford ave was only a couple of blocks away. I’m sure I caught “Jason & the Argonauts” there as well as possibly a Cartoon? There were double features there but indeed the neiborhood had slowly began to change and the Apt. buildings nearby hit rock bottom so quickly -and we’re talking “1963”! As the Savoy mysteriously closed my brother & I had to venture down Eastern Parkway to that other theatre on “Nostrand ave” which picked up the lost revenue of the late great “Savoy” theatre. R. Clinton