Marathon Theater
188 Prospect Park W.,
Brooklyn,
NY
11215
188 Prospect Park W.,
Brooklyn,
NY
11215
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The Globe Theater was on 15th St just above 5th Ave. We rarely went there. The Sanders was closer to home. It closed mid 1950s. I remember the last time I saw a movie there. Must have been some weird monster movie. My brother loved them and he had to take me! As my brother and I left we realized I Love Lucy was starting in 10 minutes and we ran all the way home
There are closed theatres called Normandie (later Carver) and Globe on Cinema Treasures. No indication of the name Sanders associated with either of these, however.
My grandmother told us about how the Sanders family, which owned this theater before replacing it with the Sanders in 1928, used to invite children at the Kane Street Synagogue in Cobble Hill, of which they were members, to the theater for free when she was growing up in the early 1900s.
There is also a story in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from September 20, 1915 describing how Rudolph Sanders received a suspended sentences for illegally allowing minors to perform at the Marathon Theater.
His 1959 New York Times obituary, says that Rudolph Sanders was formerly a director of the Independent Theatre Owners Association the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Brooklyn previously owned the Globe and Normandie theaters, neither of which I have been able to find.
When I was a young kid my uncle lived at 1 Prospect Park southwest. The theatre was just across the street. I remember it being closed for awhile. There are times that I still call it the Sanders because of my uncle and parents. The Pavilion isn’t the closest theatre to my house however I still go there because of it’s classic look and feel