Day Square Theatre
284 Bennington Street,
East Boston,
MA
02128
284 Bennington Street,
East Boston,
MA
02128
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The Day Square Theatre was a neighborhood theater in East Boston, across the harbor from downtown. It was built in 1913, and was still extant in 1942 when it was part of the Marget Theatres circuit.
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Address is confirmed here in the BPD police report for the year of 1919: View link
In the 1919 Boston Police report that Ed Findlay has found it says that the Mgr of the Day Square Theatre in E. Boston, Abraham Montague, requested that two persons be appointed as Special Police Officers at the theater, one of whom was himself!
Thanks for finding that, I tried for an hour to scour through it to find the information about the theatre!
Ed- yes, it takes time and patience to go through the BPD police reports- I only went half way. I also found a reference to the Rialto/Roslindale Theater in Roslindale, and the Fenway Theatre.
The Day Square Theater is listed in the 1927 Film Daily Yearbook as having 800 seats.
In both a 1918 and a 1921 Boston street directory, the Day Square Theater is listed at 284 Bennington Street, between Prescott St. and Curtis St.
The Day Square Theater in East Boston is listed as managed by Marget Theatres of Boston in the 1942-43 Motion Picture Almanac.
Spinelli’s catering hall now occupies either former the site or the actual building itself…aerial shot from Google maps shows the exact same dimensions as the building in this map: View link
The November 15, 1913, issue of The Moving Picture World had this item, which is probably about the Day Square Theatre: