Savoy Theatre
3030 14th Street NW,
Washington,
DC
20010
3030 14th Street NW,
Washington,
DC
20010
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Appears to be Columbia Heights Station.
Whats the name of the subway station there now on the site of the Savoy Theatre?
April 1968 photo added via Steve Larrick.
Link with an April 15, 1968 photo of the Savoy.
https://www.dc1968project.com/blog/2018/4/15/15-april-1968-
May 1961 photo added credit Old Time D.C. Facebook page. The Savoy looks vastly different than it’s earlier days.
I have loaded two pictures. I must thank Ken Roe in solving the mystery of where they are of…. :o)
I think you are thinking of the Ambassador, which was called the Knickerbocker when the roof collapsed in 1922. Killed 98 people. Rebuilt and call the Ambassador after that.
did the roof the Savoy Theater, Washington, DC collapse after a snow storm – in the earlier years of the theater?
Another picture..
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Here is the open-air theater:
http://tinyurl.com/mz9uqh
Here is a photo of the lobby of Crandall’s Savoy in 1920.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/4331?size=_original
Thanks Lost Memory !
Here is a photo of Crandall’s Theater at 9th & E. St. in N.W., Washington, D.C.
mentioned above not listed as such on CT, but may exist under another name:
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Note the adjacent Garden Theater in the photo, which I do not find listed on CT under that name but may be listed under a later name.
AKA/ Crandall’s Savoy. There was an outdoor venue adjacent to this theater, known as the Savoy Garden/ Savoy Park, used for the brutal summer months in D.C.
Photo and history of the Savoy at this URL:
http://www.shorpy.com/node/4141?size=_original
As per “stanton_square”, the Washington Post is cited to the effect:
On April 30, 1916 the Savoy Theater, Washington’s largest motion picture house, was sold by the Savoy Theater company to Harry M. Crandall for a cash payment of $75,000, bringing the Crandall circuit to four theaters, the other three of which are Crandall’s at the southeast corner of Ninth and E streets northwest, the Apollo, and the Avenue Grand.
The SAVOY was a startling success as a third-run double feature house during the bleak box office era of the 1950’s and 1960’s —– full almost every night of the week. They played films exactly one week after they played the nearby super-deluxe TIVOLI. The Tivoli charged 55c vs. the Savoy’s 40c circa 1950. The neighborhood was torched during the King Riots in 1968, and NO, I haven’t forgiven those who burned down the SAVOY —– or the neighborhood.