In the meantime, a few people around town offered suggestions.Īnn Barringer Spaeth of the Council of Community Services suggested an “Ed Sullivan Ampitheater.” The idea will officially go to the beautification committee for deliberations. But as Port Chester tries to nurture a restaurant and entertainment niche, the village board resolved this month to name something â€" a street, a square, some other proud place â€" for the TV star. The late entertainerâ€\s local ties are acknowledged in low-key ways such as a library program held earlier this month. PORT CHESTER â€" The village is looking for a way to commemorate Ed Sullivan: Broadway legend, TV pioneer and a bit less generally known, Port Chester High School graduate, class of â€\19. If anyone has a plan of action to save the Embassy Theatre, let me know! It’s one of few remaining theaters of its time in the area.Ī recent Lower Hudson news article regarding Ed Sullivan: Sadly the interior was gutted back to bare brick in 2017. I don’t want to see her go, but my dad has been talking about demolition. There are no current plans to renovate, as it would be an expensive undertaking. Sadly, the Embassy Theatre has remained vacant to this day.Īn ornate chandlier still hangs amid plaster debris and a water-damaged interior. After one night, the cops shut the place down. In 1986, a group of entrepreneurs attempted to turn the Embassy Theatre into a video dance club for teenagers called Public Domain. Movies were still shown in the Embassy Theatre until the early-1980’s (while inspecting the projection booth recently, I can a film reel for Richard Pryor’s 1982 film “Some Kind of Hero”), and as the local population grew increasingly Hispanic, the theater operated as Spanish language for a spell. The Embassy Theatre presented vaudeville in its earliest days, and later switched to silent films and talkies as motion pictures became more popular. It has remained in the family to this day (my dad worked the popcorn booth. Built on the grounds of an old Elk Lodge, this old grande dame was originally owned and operated by the Rogowsky brothers, Sam, Jack, Herbert, and Maurice. The Embassy Theatre, located in Port Chester, NY (Westchester County) opened in 1926, with 1,591 seats.
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