On August 16, 1939, New York City’s Hippodrome Theater closed. Built in 1905 with a seating capacity of 5,200, for a time the Hippodrome was the largest and most successful theater in New York.

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1939, New York City’s Hippodrome Theatre closed its doors for the final time. Built in 1905, with a seating capacity 5200, it was once the most successful theatre in New York.

The Hippodrome Theatre also called the New York Hippodrome, was a theater in New York City from 1905 to 1939, located on Sixth Avenue between West 43rd and West 44th Streets in the Theater District of ...

Returning to the New York Hippodrome with elephants, camels, horses and all the paraphernalia that made opera on Sixth Avenue the talk of the musical world last summer. Alfredo Salmaggi brought his ...

Last summer’s musical surprise was the long run of paying opera at the big old New York Hippodrome three blocks from where the proud Metropolitan had been begging for its life. The Hippodrome seats ...

Puccini’s “La Tosca” will be sung for the first time at the New York Hippodrome by Max Rabinoff’s Cosmopolitan Opera Association tonight to open the third week of popular priced grand opera in the ...

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