Plaisir Theatre

Plaisir is French for Pleasure.

I’d tend to believe that’s a conflation – at the time, the address of the Plaisir would have been 3947 or 3949 Crawford (street was later renamed) and the existing Grayland 3940 Cicero. Making this even more easily mixed-up, Pulaski/Crawford’s original name was 40th Avenue while Cicero’s original name was 48th. A simple smudge and improperly changed street name could result in an erroneous entry. Also it just seems unlikely that two theaters in such close proximity (8 blocks) would have the same name at the same time on the same N-S axis.