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Montauk Theatre

Billy Minsky's Burlesque Theater, formerly Werba's Brooklyn, also known as Crescent [and] Old Montauk

View from left of elaborate marquee ("BILLY MINSKY'S BURLESQUE") and electric signs for theater that stood at Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street before being razed in 1940; portraits of showgirls on wall of left side of theater; sign over box office announcing, "FOR YOUR WIFE SWEETHEART OR AUNT FROM DUBUQUE"; bus on curb under marquee; pedestrians on sidewalk.

IMAGE DATE1930
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