Radio Theatre
4114 13th Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11219
4114 13th Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11219
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The Royal Theatre was located in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn. It was opened prior to 1914 as the Royal Palace Hall. It opened in 1920 as the Royal Theatre.
In 1940 it was renamed Radio Theatre and featured Jewish and Italian movies. It closed January 5, 1950, and is today used for retail, by 2015 Nigun Music-a Jewish music store.
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I saw this building last week, and although retrofitted for retail use, the facade and the look of the corner building still leave little to the imagination that this was once a movie house.
The Radio was originally called The Royale Theatre. It was built sometime before World War One. I remember in the 1950’s it showed a great deal of old cowboy films. The theatre is now a mini market.
In the American Motion Picture Directory 1914-1915 there is an Amoranth Theatre at 42nd Street and 13th Avenue. Could this be the first name for the Royal/Radio Theatre as ERD posted Feb 10 2004 that it was built ‘sometime before World War One’; and the location is pretty close to the 4113 13th Street address.
Royal was etched on top of the original facade of the building, so I believe that was it’s original name. The building is on the corner of forty-first street and thirteenth Avenue, so it could not have been the Amoranth theatre which is listed as being on forty-second street. That place must have been a short lived theatre. It is the first time I ever heard it mentioned.
Pic, circa 1940, added to Gallery.