The Pagoda Theater (11 East Broadway) was opened on June 1st, 1964. While the other movie theaters in Chinatown were not explicitly constructed for film showing but rather modified after the fact, the Pagoda Theater was designed to screen movies. The theater was owned by the Catherine Corporation helmed by Lucas Liang. Liang commissioned China-born architect Poy Gum Lee to construct the theater, the last building to be designed by Lee in New York’s Chinatown. The theater’s first movie was an opera by the name of Chin Hueng Ling. The theater was one of the first of the wave of theaters to close in the early 90s and was quickly demolished after shuttering its doors in 1992.
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Pagoda Theater
11 July 2019 Posted.
The Pagoda Theater, 11 East Broadway, 1964. Courtesy of the Lee Family, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
金都戏院，东百老汇大道11号，1964年，李锦沛家族捐赠，美国华人博物馆（MOCA）馆藏
