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EcRocker commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Aug 3, 2009 at 7:03 pm

I just switched browsers to see if there was a problem with CT but I guess not. I was just on IE8 for the last post and noticed that after I finished typing I had to wait about 5 seconds for the letters to show up. I am on Chrome right now and it is working fine

BTW when I did log in here I was directed to the main page and there was an article about the passing of Reverend Ike. In case you were not aware of who he was he ran his church out of what used to be the Loews 175th st. At least he did something to preserve the 175th st

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Aug 3, 2009 at 6:58 pm

Larry I have seen a few women posting on here. You just have to look back a ways.

Hey has anyone seen Bway lately? Looks like his last post was on June 29th 09.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Aug 3, 2009 at 8:51 am

Hi Chuck. I don’t seem to recall your name here but since you said you were away for 2 years a big welcome back to you. Hopefully what ever it was you had to deal with is behind you now. I know how overwelming it can be. I was a survivor of a 5 way bypass 4 years ago.

Howard just like any other communities be it real or cyber as I said we have a core group here. We can pretty much take care of our selves and if the powers that be (CT) feel there is something wrong going on in here I am sure they can either post a warning message in here or e-mail to the individuals involved.

Hey LM I have not been up to Baltimore since that last time I posted about the Apollo so I have no followups and I have not heard anything more on what is or is not happening to the Howard.

That is my CT update/non update report.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Aug 3, 2009 at 12:10 am

Hello Howard.

This is the first time I have ever seen you posting on this particular thread. Yes this is a public forum on theatres and what you may not understand is that there is a “CORE” group of people who are in here all the time. With all that has been happening with the NYC LPC and everything else with the Ridgewood we havebecome a cyber community. Most of us have come to know each other and we have our own stories and background as well as memories of Ridgewood. Sometimes we agree to disagree. As a member of CT and this particular theatre page for a number of years we feel we can talk about anything. If you playing a friendly game of poker are you just supposed to talk cards the whole time? I don’t think so.

I am sorry if this comes off the wrong way but since your post states nothing about you being a webmaster or part of CT management you seem to be stepping on my toes and the other members of Ridgewood and I know for sure I do not appreciate it. If CT has a problem with the way this theatre thread is going I am sure they would have said something about it already. By the way this thread is probobly one of the most posted on in CT because of our “CORE” Community.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Aug 2, 2009 at 6:46 am

Oh come on guys we are all adults in here i hope. I for one never had any problems with Warren. Matter of fact if I ran across ove of his posts that had a bad or a dead link to a picture he was always pretty prompt as to updating the link to where those pictures were stored. Sure I saw some of his posts that seemed to have a bit of vinegar but over all he did have a good knowlege of things.

I also do not understand what is happening with CT overall. Either I don’t get an e-mail for months on all the theatres I have listed or like today I got bombarded with 15 alone today.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Howard Theatre on May 28, 2009 at 8:11 pm

Hey Lost I drove by the Howard today and from what i could see from the naked eye was the same that i saw the last time I was up there. The Lincoln on the other hand was nicely lit up and Bens Chillie Bowl had a line out the door.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Kings Theatre on May 13, 2009 at 11:15 am

Warren as long as the people in Brooklyn keep electing his dumb ass he is going to continue be a politician and savor all the perks that come with holding office. Mayor Bloomberg is entitled to receive $225,000 a year. He has opted to only take $1 a year since he has almost as much money as god. The president of the United States gets $400,000 a year. The point being is that even with a salary there are enough perks of being in office that they don’t even have to touch their income.
Marty has been having his cake and eating it to long to give it up. Marty talks the talk but in my mind has not walked the walk.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Kings Theatre on May 12, 2009 at 11:12 am

Nope your not Stupid Movie. I may have done something like that or even tried to find the plans/blue prints for the now Demolished Academy of Music and had it rebuilt elsewhere.

To Ziggy what Marty meant is that of the 5 Wonder theatres most of them were divided in to duplexes and quads. And no Marty is smart but only when it comes to him and the $$$ in his pockets.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Apollo Theatre on May 11, 2009 at 11:08 am

LOL Lost I was driving by in a tour bus not a car. I just have this uncanny nack of finding places like this. I think the google street views are less then 2 years old.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Apollo Theatre on May 10, 2009 at 10:32 pm

Here is a google Map link. It also has Street View
View link

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EcRocker commented about Apollo Theatre on May 10, 2009 at 10:30 pm

Right now I can’t tell you. Like I said I just happened to be driving by and stopped for a light. I only realized it was a theatre when I saw APOLLO just below the roof edge. It is not in the best of neighborhoods by far. If I happen to happen opon it again and have a few minutes I may look in to it.

It’s so nice to get my PC back on line. Something happened to my wireless connection. It showed I had signal and I was on line but the PC didn’t see it. Deleted the wireless card drivers and reloaded it and I was back but for 2 weeks I was in a panic. I was on a slow lap top and getting e-mail was a pain in the butt

TTyl Lost

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Kings Theatre on May 10, 2009 at 2:16 pm

Warren you are preaching to the chior here. We all know he is full of hot air. He is a master on manipulating money in to his own pockets. I have personal issues with him going back to the early 90’s when he was a NY State Senator. He has mastered his touch while promoting his 2 summer concert series in brookly. Sure there is no cost for the public to attend but his money to pay for it all comes from mostly public funding from Fed State and local levels and a dash or 2 from private corperations. To make it look legit he would book a few acts who were past their prime but still a draw and then book others that had one foot in the grave. He would get the same ammount of money per show but would pay the revival acts much less so what they didn’t get went in to his pockets. Don’t get me wrong here. Marty has the connections to booking agents and the rest and uses them to his advantage rather then using them to save the Kings.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Kings Theatre on May 10, 2009 at 12:42 pm

I was wondering who I would have to contact if I wanted to take a tour of the Kings. I am sure if I looked hard I could find a way in but I want to see it as a friend and not an intruder.

This is part of an out take of Marty (I sit on my ass and do nothing)Markowitz dated Feb 12th 2009. It was part of the State of the Borough Address
Thursday, February 12, 2009 â€" Kingsborough Community College
The caps are the way it is on the site so please don’t get on me for it

WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TOURISM AND ENTERTAINMENT AS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
â€"
I ALSO MUST MENTION THE LOEWS KINGS THEATER IN FLATBUSH. â€" THE LAST
“WONDER THEATER” IN THE CITY THAT HAS NOT BEEN SUBDIVIDED
I HAD MY FIRST DATE IN THE UPPER-LEFT BALCONY â€" , WHEN I WAS 16, IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING IT WAS MY FIRST “COUPLES” DATE â€" NOT WITH A GROUP BACK THEN, IT WAS CONSIDERED “GETTING SOMEWHERE” TO PUT YOUR ARM AROUND YOUR DATE’S SHOULDER.
(IT’S A WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY TODAY! â€" BACK THEN THERE WERE NO “HOT TUBS” EITHER) â€" BUT WHO MY AGE DIDN’T HAVE THEIR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION AT THE LOEWS KINGS?
IT’S BEEN EMPTY FOR OVER 30 YEARS â€" AND NOW I’M PROUD TO SAY WE ARE WORKING WITH NEW YORK CITY E-D-C TO SELECT A DEVELOPER-OPERATOR.
MY DREAM REMAINS THAT THE LOEWS KINGS WILL, SOME DAY IN THE NEAR FUTURE,COMBINE THE APOLLO AND BEACON THEATERS RIGHT HERE IN OUR BOROUGH â€"AND BE AN ECONOMIC ENGINE FOR FLATBUSH AVENUE AND ALL OF CENTRAL BROOKLYN.
(THANK YOU, E-D-C PRESIDENT AND BROOKLYN RESIDENT, SETH PINSKY)
AND THANK YOU BROOKLYN BOROUGH HISTORIAN RON SCHWEIGER FOR THE GREAT HISTORIC PHOTOS. THE WORLD’S GREAT CITIES ARE DEFINED BY THE BEAUTY, GRANDEUR, AND HUMANITY OF THEIR PUBLIC SPACES.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Apollo Theatre on May 10, 2009 at 12:22 pm

I was just up in Baltimore last weekend and had I not ben stopped at a traffic light I might have never even seen the Baltimore Apollo.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Apr 12, 2009 at 12:45 pm

OMG Lost I have posted on quite a few theatre sites. Not all of them were marked as favorites. I only have 14 checked off. I know it is not as many as the thousands you must have but there were at least a dozen more that I went to all the time. I guess I am going to feel like the Maytag repair guy and be lonely.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Apr 12, 2009 at 5:33 am

Hey Lost is there a problem with e-mails? Ever since I got a notification that some adjustments have been made I went from about 10-12 notices a day to none in the last 2 weeks.

Michael

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Shore Theatre on Mar 22, 2009 at 12:56 pm

Shifrins Hebrew National when I was growing up was the site of Murry Zarrats Animal Nursey and the Play Races was A Faber’s Fascination location. Another community that has faced a major decline.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Capitol Theatre on Mar 20, 2009 at 10:32 am

Oh yeah I agree 1000% Yes that was three zero’s. I can recall a night in 1977 when Skynyrd played the Palladium (Academy) on their One more from the road tour. This was the pre veri-lite days. The band always put on a kick ass show. This time around was nothing different except maybe for the lighting. Off the top of my head I can’t give you a realistic count of how many Par-64’s or specials they had set up but as far as I was concenred it was over done. That night I was running the Super Arc and from my vantage I had a great view of the stage.
To make things relevant to what you were talking about with Triumvirat. A couple of days later they were scheduled to play the Nassua Colliseum. However this at this show they were the opening act for the Doobies. Case in point is that since they were the opening act they were limited as to what they could do with the lights. As with your situation they had basic stage washes and as luck would have it a few specials because they worked around the specials set up for the Doobies. The ironic part of this was that the Doobies doing an arena tour had about half the lighting then Skynyrd was touring with. To make a long story short the show looked better with the little that they had to use then with the system they were touring with.

I am sure there were some shows at the Capitol where rather then using the in house lighting they insisted on using their own. Maybe I am wrong here but I think at one or two shows i worked the lifts were set up on the floor in front of the stage rather then the stage it self.

Just for shits and giggles here is the link to a Google Satellite view of what is now where the Capitol used to stand.

View link

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Capitol Theatre on Mar 19, 2009 at 3:37 pm

Moyssi if you went to that web site and read through it all it was a political fireball. Lack of money. A town that went through everything they could to block it from the original site. How they had less then a month to pull this off. I think the funniest thing is when they were going to rent out Yasgars Farm for $50 a day. Max saw what was happening and he was not about to get hoodwinked. Like I said there will never be another event like Woodstock. Most of the tribute concerts done in the name of Woodstock were done to make money off the name. Then the 1999 one held at the former Griffis Air Force base may have been good logisticaly where you have a flat level concrete base to erect a stage but not real good for thousands of people to sit on or standing on for hours on end when the temps got in to the 90’s and the concrete temps were well over 100. Of course if you look at it from a technical point of view the Sound Lighting and stage were far more advanced and refined then it was in 1969 with Bill Hanleys sound system and Tom Fields lights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_1999

Commercialization
In contrast to the more grass-roots nature of the original Woodstock festival, Woodstock 1999 was conceived and executed as a commercial venture with dozens of corporate sponsors, and included the presence of vendor “malls” and modern acoutrements such as ATMs and e-mail stations.[4]

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Here is another article that even mentions John Scher as a copromotor

Critics later decried the use of the Woodstock brand name for such an event as “crass commercialization” and decried “concert organizers who gouged the kids with grossly overpriced water, beer, and food”.[5] Tickets for the event were priced at $150 plus service charges,[1] at the time considered high for a festival of this type.[6]

Tom Morello, the politically-active guitarist for festival performers Rage Against the Machine later “suggested an affinity between the looters at the event.”[7]

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Mar 19, 2009 at 1:05 pm

John D that was a great testimonial. I am glad you mentioned Thomas Lamb. I also did that in my letter but I also mentioned how Lamb’s NY Academy of Music was allowed to be demolished by NYU’s wrecking ball.

One thing I would like to know is in your letter you had this line. “RKO Madison, closed its doors for good during a period of profound urban delay.” Did you mean delay or decay?

Michael

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EcRocker commented about Capitol Theatre on Mar 19, 2009 at 12:55 pm

I was just on one of the Woodstock sites today and from what I read was that the Dead were on stage during one of the many rain falls that took place. Someone who said he was a friend of the band said that their set was aweful mostly because they were trying to avoid getting electrucuted.

http://www.woodstock69.com/wsrprnt5.htm

“Phil Ciganer’s buddy was Grateful Dead guitar guru Jerry Garcia, who used to pop into Ciganer’s hippie boutique in Brooklyn. But, friendship aside, Ciganer had to be honest about the Grateful Dead’s performance at Woodstock. The band members were standing in water, their electric guitars were shocking their fingers. "It was the worst show of theirs I’d ever seen,” he said."

Could be a good enough reason.

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Capitol Theatre on Mar 19, 2009 at 5:46 am

Lets see now. Warner Home Video is pouring on the love for Woodstock’s 40th anniversary, packing in two hours of never-before-released footage into its June 9 DVD/Blu-ray Disc re-release of the documentary about the 1969 music festival that became a cultural touchstone.

So for the 40th anniversary they are adding an additional 2 hours. The original 184 minute running time was expanded to 224 minutes for the 1994 video and now that will make the movie about 6 hours long.

I wonder what they have in mind for the 50th anniversary? Will they release more footage?

Will some of us still be alive in 2019? What amazes me is that is that some of the original acts from 1969 are still alive and some are still out there touring

I guess what makes this easy for Warner to do this is that they do not have to worry about getting releases from the artists because even though they were not shown in the original version the releases were already signed.

What might be nice is if who ever controls the Capitol tapes could come out with a compolation “Best Of”. Be it B&W or color. I am sure there would be a good market for shows like that even if it is only 1 or 2 songs from each group

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Mar 18, 2009 at 12:49 pm

I have sent an e-mail to Chairman Robert Tierney .gov over the weekend. I got a notice back saying my e-mail was read. I sent it out 9:21:51 PM and it shows he read it 9:26:02 PM

Your message

To: Robert B. Tierney
Subject: Ridgewood Theatre Queens NY
Sent: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:21:51 -0400

was read on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:26:02 -0400

EcRocker
EcRocker commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Mar 18, 2009 at 6:08 am

No Hijacking here for me

Ridgewood Theater Up for Landmark Consideration
by Jeremy Sapienza | March 16th, 2009

The Ridgewood Theater. â€" Photo by Michael Perlman
In addition to the Gates-Palmetto Mathews flats and the Ulmer Brewery complex on Beaver, the ornate limestone and terra cotta façade of the Ridgewood Theater may be added to the growing list of Greater Bushwick structures up for historic landmark consideration.

A hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday [pdf] to determine if the Landmarks Commission should further consider the theater for Individual Historic Landmark status. A petition is being circulated to convince the Commission of the theater’s importance to the community.

The theater opened in 1916, and for generations served Bushwick and Ridgewood. “It is believed to be one of the oldest continuously operated theaters in the country, having never closed for renovations during its 89-year run.” It closed almost exactly one year ago.

TIME: 11:25 AM â€" 12:00 PM
PUBLIC HEARING ITEM NO. 7
LP-2325
STAFF: V.K.
BOROUGH OF QUEENS
RIDGEWOOD THEATER. 55-27 Myrtle Avenue, Queens.
Landmark Site: Borough of Queens Tax Map Block 3451 Lot 7 in part

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EcRocker commented about Ritz Theatre on Mar 17, 2009 at 11:59 am

Oh how I wish CT had an optional spell checker. After reading my last posting just now I nearly crapped.
I was on the Uriah Heep web site yesterday and noticed that they had played the Ritz in 1971 but did not list it as the Ritz.

http://www.uriah-heep.com/newa/giglists.php

(First) US Tour
Mar 26 – Fillmore East, New York City, NY
Mar 27 – Fillmore East, New York City, NY
Mar 30 – Ungano’s Club, New York City, NY
Mar 31 – Ungano’s Club, New York City, NY