Saturday, August 30, 2008

Casino Theatre at El Centro Espanol de Tampa (Ybor City)


Location: 1526-1536 East 7th Avenue
Status: Centro Ybor restaurants, comedy club, shops, etc.

1914


1925


1927


2010 (Tampa Improv)


2010 (Tampa Improv)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Listed in the 1950 Film Daily Yearbook...720 seats.

Anonymous said...

I wonder, if this is at centro Ybor, does that mean that this is where the Improv currently is. Juding from the looks, the top blacony seems to be where samurai Blue is, the bottom is the improv.

Anonymous said...

In the 1950s, when I went there, the Casino showed mostly Cuban-made films (this was pre-Castro). So much fun!

This is a great site, BTW. I grew up in Tampa and went to many of these movie houses, and also the drive-ins, such as the Dale Mabrey and the Hillsborough, all I'm sure long gone. (I left the Tampa Bay area in 1966.)