Movie Theater - The joy of movies 1918
by Mike Savad
Title
Movie Theater - The joy of movies 1918
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1918
Original Title: Crandall's Theater
Photographer: The National Photo Co
Location: 9th and E streets NW, Washington DC
This is the Joy Theater, owned by Harry Crandall, and as such it was often known as Crandall's Theater. It was opened in 1913, had 450 seats. The building used to sell haberdashery, but it was remodeled to have a slanted cement floor. Each night he would flood the floor with water and it would exit out the bottom, all to keep it sanitary. The theater lasted till 1924, where it was turned back into retail space.
Next door, there were soda shops and a dentist on the top floor. I'm guessing he had a lot of business. Next to that is the Garden Theater, it was acquired in 1913, later on renovated in 1918, and in 1922, Crandall took over that theater too and renamed it the Central Theatre.
Over the years, floors were removed, and the buildings were stripped of their beauty, by the end of their life they became XXX movies houses before closing down in the 1980s, and then both torn down. In fact the only building that exists today is that white one in the back, the Landsburgh dept store.
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