Mardi Gras Theater
1243 Surf Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11224
1243 Surf Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11224
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Located on Surf Avenue at Coney Island, Brooklyn, on the north side of the street near L.A. Thompson’s Scenic Railway and Luna Park, this theater burned to the ground on 24 January 1940. Four and half years later the same fate befell Luna Park.
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J.F. Lundy
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This is a photo link showing Mardi Gras Theater vetical on Surf Avenue in 1937 during Tri-Cent Parade. Theater is on lower right.
What theater is that on the left with Movies written on a vertical sign?
That is the Mardi Gras. Caption above should read “lower left”.
This theater opened in the former Boston Hotel on Surf Avenue in 1920. It replaced a large saloon at ground level. The hotel itself dated prior to 1890 and became unviable after the BRT subway/“L” lines provided cheap (nickel),fast access from the City as well as Queens and far away Brooklyn neighborhoods such as Bushwick. The saloon was closed by passage of the Volstead act in October 1919 which implemented the 18th Ammendment.
Here is a photograph of the fire in 1940. The address is given as 1243 Surf Avenue:
http://tinyurl.com/nx7nz
Here is a photo dating to 1908 which shows what I believe to be the Mardi Gras Theater on Surf Avenue. If it existed under this name in 1908 it would contradict information I have posted above about it opening in 1920. It may have existed under a different name in 1908 but vertical sign shown in photo does not give name.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/4616?size=_original
Beer signs in the photo near the vertical may indicate that movies may have been projected in the large saloon said to occupy the first floor of the hotel mentioned above, prior to 1920.
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