Mecca Theatre
445 E. 14th Street,
New York,
NY
10009
445 E. 14th Street,
New York,
NY
10009
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Originally at 227-241 Avenue A was the Royal/East Side Beauty Theatre which dated back to 1908. The Mecca Theatre was built on the site in 1926 with its entrance at 445 E. 14th Street. It had opened by May 1927. It was operated by the Blinderman-Steiner Circuit. It was closed around 1943 and was demolished.
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William Gabel
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The American Motion Picture Directory;1914-1915 edition lists a Royal Theatre at 235 Avenue A.
There was a New 14th Street Theater located at 235-237 E 14th Street. It was built in 1915 and operated by the SWS chain, which also ran the Sunshine Theater and the American Movies Theater.
14th Street Theatre was at 107 W 14th St. Originally Theatre Francais (1866) then Lyceum but perhaps most known as Civic Reportory Theatre (1926). Demolished 1938. Berenice Abbott took a photo just beforehand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Street_Theatre
I have a old program from the mecca theatre nyc there are days listed of the shows but not the year with the following shows june14 “The Cheerful Fraud” Reginald Denny, June 15&16"the understanding heart" Joan Crawford, June 18 “the Texas Streak” hoot Gibson would anyone know when these played
“The Understanding Heart” is the newest title, opening in NY in early May 1927, so 1927 is a good guess. The other two titles opened in late 1926.
thank you Al , I didn’t think the program was that old
I could not fine any information on it
I teach at a nearby public school (built in 1913) where my students have unearthed a lot of very old artifacts from under closet floorboards, including a Mecca Theatre ticket with an ad on the back for Summer & Austein Confectionary Store at 193 Avenue B (“candy in boxes—our specialty”). We also found ticket stubs from the Bijou nearby. You can see our old ticket on our Instagram account, @closetarchaeology.
Rosemarie who just passed away played there as a child then known as Baby Rose Marie in the late 20’s.
The address for the entrance to the Mecca Theatre was 445 East 14th Street, which was on the north side of 14th Street just west of Avenue A. The address currently given in the Overview is for the block long side of the Mecca premises on Avenue A between E. 14th and E. 15th Streets, which can be seen in the NYC Tax Photo displayed here