{"id":220374,"date":"2026-05-05T06:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220374\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:39:32","slug":"mid-michigans-smallest-theater-the-star-theatre-brooklyn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220374\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Michigan&#8217;s Smallest Theater? The Star Theatre, Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might be one of mid-Michigan&#8217;s smallest movie theaters, but it sure drew people from even the \u201cbig city\u201d of Jackson to the movies.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the Star Theater in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Opening date was October 7, 1937. Upon opening, it was filled with 200 seats (told ya it was small!). With success came expansion, and by 1950 it had 463 seats.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WITLFM.png\" alt=\"100.7 WITL logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I recall going to the Star in the 1970s after seeing their ads every day in the Jackson Citizen Patriot for years. I finally took the drive to Brooklyn with a couple of buddies and we really did have a good time.<\/p>\n<p>If the Star had only hung in there for one more year, it would have celebrated fifty years&#8230;..but it ended up closing operations in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>For next year, 2027, I hope someone plans some kind of 90th anniversary celebration for the Star. It is very likely, as restoration is already in progress!<\/p>\n<p>Star Theater, Brooklyn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It might be one of mid-Michigan&#8217;s smallest movie theaters, but it sure drew people from even the \u201cbig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,12,63],"class_list":["post-220374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}