My mother is visiting for two weeks, so you may be seeing some odd “Brooklyn From Memory” posts. On Saturday we drove around East Flatbush and Flatbush were I spent my early childhood. The movie theaters were most recognizable because some still had marquees, but also…movie houses tend to stick in one’s mind, don’t they?

The Loew’s Kings Theater was is the only one we found that was still intact as a theater, as run down as it was. Upon further research, we found out that restoration is in progress and the plan is to re-open as a performing arts center by 2014. A happy ending for this one!

The Albemarle on Albemarle Road near Flatbush. Closed in 1984 after fire.

The Brook Theater on Flatlands just off of Flatbush is now an office building.

My long term memory must be pretty awesome because this Church Avenue theater became The RKO Keith in the early 70’s, but I remember it as The Kenmore. I was five in 1970.

We were one building off on Utica Avenue’s Rugby Theater. It was actually the structure to the left of the T-Mobile store.

More from Flatbush.