Palace Theatre on Times Square at 47th Street NYC

The old Times Square, with the Seventh Avenue in the foreground, looking east toward 47th Street. The Palace Theatre at 1564 Broadway is housed the 11-story building, on the right, completed in 1913. Photograph copyrighted by American Studio 1920. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The old Columbia Theatre is on the left, on the northeast corner of 7th Avenue and 47th Street. It was a burlesque theater operated by the Columbia Amusement Company, between 1910 and 1927, when the theater was closed. More: Times Square looking north ►