About This Item

  • Title[Marquee of Werba's Brooklyn Theater]
  • Call NumberTHEA_0067
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView from right of marquee of theater known variously as Werba's, Billy Minsky's Burlesque, Crescent, and Old Montauk that stood at Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street before being razed in 1940; "WERBA'S" in electric letters above blank marquee; oval portrait of showgirl on right of marquee; "FOR SALE" sign above marquee; fading sign above for sale sign reads, "GIRLIE S[HO]WS FASTEST IN BROOKLYN"; lone man in trench coat standing before closed doors of theater.
  • Date1940
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 11/40. Retouched; small diagonal portion missing from top.
  • SubjectTheaters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Marquees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.