Vogue Theatre
1455 Coney Island Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11230
1455 Coney Island Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11230
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What was the relationship with Loew’s? Century assumed management of a number of their theaters and they Century’s? Interestingly in later years Loew’s was looking to acquire Century. Eventually absorbed by RKO.
This reopened as Vogue on February 5th, 1937. Grand opening ad posted
Uploaded a 1930 Century ad when it was still the Manor.
We lived on East 10th between L and M, right around the block. I remember when the Vogue closed. It sat there closed for a while before they did the alteration. A lot of theatres were closing in those days, but in our neighborhood the Midwood and the Elm survived. I’m quite sure the conversion to an old age home was done in the mid-1950s, not the early 1960s.
Great 1947 photo of the Vogue. Too bad that the structure that replaced it is so nondescript and adds nothing to the streetscape.
An odd double bill
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A couple of photographs I took in June 2006(apologies for the delivery truck out front which seemed to be going nowhere fast!):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/193536547/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/193537151/
Thank you, Warren for your photo of the Vogue. I passed it on to my childhood friend Rose who is now living in Oregon, who, I’m sure will remember our teenage stabs at sophistication —watching fabulous foreign movies at this lovely theatre. Francesca
First listed in Film Daily Yearbook;1927 edition. It was the Manor Theatre with a seating capacity given as 1,700.
As I remember it, the Vogue was the first neighborhood theatre to show foreign films after World War II. My teenage friends and I were thrilled to see Italian and French movies with subtitles—and especially a Russian film called “The Stone Flower”. We had such a crush on its hero that I even remember his name: Vladimir Druzhnekov! So to us The Vogue Theater was our special schoolhouse—a place that made us feel worldly and sophisticated.
Francesca
The Vogue Theatre was located at 1455 Coney Island Ave. and it seated 1376 people.
It was named the Manor and the Vogue in its theater days.