Theatre – The Historic Gayety Theatre

Contents:

• GAYETY THEATRE
• GAYETY THEATRE ON 92ND STREET AND COMMERCIAL AVENUE
• GAYETY BURLK THEATRE
• LOST WASHGTON: THE GAYETY THEATER
• THE HISTORIC GAYETY THEATRE
• GAYETY THEATRE, SHOWG SPANISH LANGUAGE MOVI
• GAYETY THEATER
• GAYETY THEATRE BLAZE STARR BURLK 1965-66 D. D. TEOLI JR. A. C.

GAYETY THEATRE

Gayety Theatre.

GAYETY THEATRE ON 92ND STREET AND COMMERCIAL AVENUE

Strand Theatre, Guild Theatre, Gayety Burlk Theatre.

Later renamed Gayety Burlk Theatre, prentg live burlque shows, 1960 was advertisg “Hollywood Burlk”.

GAYETY BURLK THEATRE

Still operatg 1976, when was attractg a gay male dience. They Gayety Theatre opened Febary 5, 1906 as a burlque theatre, although movi were featured later years, when durg the 1960’s screened ‘X’ rated adult films.

LOST WASHGTON: THE GAYETY THEATER

The Gayety Theatre name and s adult movie e was transferred to the vant Plaza Theatre across the road. Today, the lobby of the former Gayety Theatre is an adult vio and book store.

THE HISTORIC GAYETY THEATRE

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GAYETY THEATRE, SHOWG SPANISH LANGUAGE MOVI

Built as a vville hoe 1907 the Gayety, origally spelled Gaiety, slowly swched to movi as films beme more popular. The buildg was also home to the very popular Gayety Candy Company and Soda Shop. In the 1950s, the Gayety Theater swched om first-n featur to Spanish-language films, reflectg the change the populatn of the neighborhood om heavily Eastern European to maly Latx.

GAYETY THEATER

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On November 22, 1946 was renamed Gayety Burlk Theatre and operated to the 1950’s. Unfortunately, the remas of the Gayety Theatre was molished 1980, along wh s still-elegant terra-tta faça, as part of an urban renewal project.

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GAYETY THEATRE BLAZE STARR BURLK 1965-66 D. D. TEOLI JR. A. C.

” In the heart of this mi-Tim Square was the fabulo Gayety Theater, where the girls were always kickg their legs up and the edians gunng for endls, easy Gayety, loted at 513 9th Street, NW, was signed by noted theater archect William H. Interr of the Gayety Theater. Allen, by 1912 approximately 70 tourg burlque pani played at one hundred theaters across the untry and employed some 5, 000 early years of the Gayety’s existence—the 1910s and 1920s—were undoubtedly s heyday, a time when burlque was still a gog theatril ncern.