The Historic Gayety Theatre – Your statn for live entertament Collgwood!

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.

Strand Theatre, Guild Theatre, Gayety Burlk Theatre.

GAYETY THEATRE ON 92ND STREET AND COMMERCIAL AVENUE

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

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. Archive ID: 1982-207-92Date Created: undatedDonor: Andrew KovalMedia Type: PostrdLanguage: EnglishBackstory:Exterr view of Gayety Theater loted near 92nd Street and Commercial Avenue the heart of the South Chigo bs district.

GAYETY BURLK THEATRE

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. The Gayety had n some Polish language films the late 1930s and early 1940s. Filters: Buildgs/Landmarks Communy Life Other Pop Culture Small Bs Other/Unknown South Chigo Other/Unknown Postrd 1982-207 Banks Bs districts Bs Cartoons Dg stor Gayety Theatre General stor Photographs Superman Theaters Walgreens.

Gayety Burlk Theatre. 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.

LOST WASHGTON: THE GAYETY THEATER

The Gayety Theatre, om a postrd the thor’s llectn. ” 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.

When the Gayety opened 1907, there weren’t any stripteas, although voluptuo women were always spotlighted. She produced “The Unknown Law” at the Gayety September Williams, om a postrd the thor’s llectn. Instead of s expensive bookgs, theaters like the Gayety ed “stock” burlque shows that were much cheaper to produce and mostly nsisted of striptease January 1929, when was still primarily a theatril venue, the Gayety achieved unual notoriety when produced a midnight benef show for the fai of four imprisoned gamblers.

THE HISTORIC GAYETY THEATRE

It seems the uproar fally blew over when officials lost their appete for explorg the extent of rptn the Metropolan Police Gayety always drew s share of Washgton’s officialdom, cludg many members of Congrs, ernment officials, and even a print or two. Although was the largt theater on 9th Street and the only one dited to burlque, the Gayety was surround by other theaters, rtrants and ars.

GAYETY THEATRE, SHOWG SPANISH LANGUAGE MOVI

Immediately to the left of the Gayety was a Gothic-Revival former church buildg origally nstcted 1835 and enlarged 1879. In the 1910s and 1920s hoed the Port Arthur Che Rtrant; later was a bar and fé directly nnected to the Gayety. Two doors down on the right was the Lear Theater, built 1910 wh rative excs to rival the Gayety’s.

GAYETY THEATER

The 1, 500-seat Gayety, signed for full-sle theatril productns, found was losg money this new world and held s last burlque show Febary 1950. However, the timg turned out to be fortuo, and the theater got an unexpected Gayety Theater at night, 1942. In Febary 1950, an agent for a Broadway show lled “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” learned that the Gayety had closed and cid to see if he uld book for his productn.

Th March 1950, after a most b of renovatn, the Gayety proudly re-opened as a legimate theater wh admtance to all rac. ” His ocsn for wrg was the announcement that much-loved imprar Jimmy Lake (1880-1967), the unofficial “mayor of 9th Street” who had taken over the Gayety Theater 1914 and had prid over s glory days, was fally leavg the area. After beg evicted om the fé and theater, Lake moved his bs a block south to the old Central Theater buildg, which he nostalgilly re-christened the Gayety.

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

His new place beme a strip jot before was shut down for lack of bs and molished 1976, the Gayety name was moved yet another time, to the former Roosevelt movie theater at 508 9th Street NW, which had been built 1933.

This 500-seat theater, which was across the street om the se of the origal Gayety theater, ntued wh a mix of live girls and X-rated films to the 1980s. Inial plans were for the Washgton Stage Guild to occupy performg arts space on the 8th Street si of the buildg, where the origal Gayety Theater’s stage ed to be, but fundg for that project didn’t materialize.

Archive ID: 1983-047-10Date Created: undatedDonor: The Daily CalumetMedia Type: PhotographLanguage: mulBackstory:The Gayety Theatre origally opened South Chigo as the Hippodrome 1907. The name was changed to the Gayety durg the 1920s around the time began to screen films. The Gayety was loted on Commercial Avenue the btlg retail district of South Chigo next door to the equally-popular Gayety Soda Shop, which was packed wh young people before and after shows.