My Life In Brooklyn

A couple weeks ago I took some pictures of this building located on the southeast corner of Flatbush and Cortelyou, which pretty clearly indicates it was once a theatre.  It’s been nagging at me for a couple of weeks now, but today when I was looking through my postcards for something else I stumbled upon the vintage Rialto Theatre card.  What was amazing, to me at least, is I had by chance captured almost the exact same camera position.  This generally never happens to me, especially when I am actually trying to do this.

The “before” was published between 1916 - 1930; the “after” was photographed 28 September 2006.

Cinema Treasures has this on it.

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