Thank you, Michael, John D., and East Coast Rocker for your insightful comments and information, and article link.
John D., I will ask my father about “dish nights” at the Ridgewood. He has spoken to me extensively about them at Bushwick theaters like the Colonial and the Bushwick, but not at the Ridgewood. Good expression, “cinematic food chain” ! I like it !
East Coast Rocker, it really reads like the part of Maryland you reside in is seriously cinema-deficient in terms of movie screens to population ratio.
Warren dear, Your Arrogance, Your Rudeness, Your Truculence, Your High Exalted Sickness, I post invitations to Bushwick Buddies here so I and other CT'ers can engage in the type of talk there that you object so vehemently to on this site, free of your malevolent, noisome, annoying presence.
What makes you so valuable to the owners and management of CT that they allow you to continue posting your abusive comments here ?
Thank you, Panzer65. I don’t know anything about Warren’s personal life, nor do I want to know.
Bway, your point is well-taken. The inner lobby of the Ridgewood, even when it was all one theater, could not compare to the multi-storied glory of the inner lobby of the RKO Madison, even though the elliptical inner lobby of the Ridgewood balcony was beautiful. The most majestic thing I remember about the orchestra level inner lobby of the Ridgewood was the large staircase leading up to the elliptical inner lobby of the balcony.
I agree with you about having a photo of the interior of the Ridgewood when it was still one theater, and its usefulness to the current landmarking effort.
Warren, the only dumb question is the one that is never asked. Don’t lecture me on what I should have learned by now. I’ll post what I please.
Tell us, what inside dirt do you have, or think you have, on the owners and managers of CT that you think gives you the right, or will allow you to go on abusing other members of CT the way you do ?
Panzer65, there is a link to an image someplace on this thread of the inner lobby of the RKO Madison, shortly after it opened around Thanksgiving 1927. Both the chandelier and the mirror above the landing of the grand staircase are BOTH in place, and the reflection of the fully lit chandelier in the mirror makes the chandelier, mirror and grand staircase look like God Himself in all His radiant glory sitting on His throne in heaven.
Apart from that, the inner lobby looks so beautiful and majestic, more like the inner lobby of an opera house or palace, than a movie theater in Ridgewood, Queens, near the Brooklyn border.
Good article, Warren. Thanks. If I were still single and living in Ridgewood, Queens, I, too, would probably be walking four miles or more to the Kew Gardens Cinemas to regularly see exceptional films there.
As opposed to exploding fireball movies at the Midway and Brandon Cinemas in downtown Forest Hills.
Thanks, HerbS. That would explain why Watkins Street in Brownsville has gone the way of Turnbull Avenue in Flatlands / Canarsie (East 105th St. station on the L line).
Bob Furmanek, I, too, post under my real name.
“I can think of no other poster on this board who has contributed more in the way of facts, photos and documentation than Mr. Harris.”
That doesn’t give him the right to abuse other CT members.
“Curtain Call”, eh ? No, not hopeful.
John D., I will look for the related item in the current Times Newsweekly. What was the date of the issue that you saw it in ?
Thank you, Michael, John D., and East Coast Rocker for your insightful comments and information, and article link.
John D., I will ask my father about “dish nights” at the Ridgewood. He has spoken to me extensively about them at Bushwick theaters like the Colonial and the Bushwick, but not at the Ridgewood. Good expression, “cinematic food chain” ! I like it !
East Coast Rocker, it really reads like the part of Maryland you reside in is seriously cinema-deficient in terms of movie screens to population ratio.
Warren dear, Your Arrogance, Your Rudeness, Your Truculence, Your High Exalted Sickness, I post invitations to Bushwick Buddies here so I and other CT'ers can engage in the type of talk there that you object so vehemently to on this site, free of your malevolent, noisome, annoying presence.
What makes you so valuable to the owners and management of CT that they allow you to continue posting your abusive comments here ?
Thank you, Panzer65. I don’t know anything about Warren’s personal life, nor do I want to know.
Bway, your point is well-taken. The inner lobby of the Ridgewood, even when it was all one theater, could not compare to the multi-storied glory of the inner lobby of the RKO Madison, even though the elliptical inner lobby of the Ridgewood balcony was beautiful. The most majestic thing I remember about the orchestra level inner lobby of the Ridgewood was the large staircase leading up to the elliptical inner lobby of the balcony.
I agree with you about having a photo of the interior of the Ridgewood when it was still one theater, and its usefulness to the current landmarking effort.
Warren, the only dumb question is the one that is never asked. Don’t lecture me on what I should have learned by now. I’ll post what I please.
Tell us, what inside dirt do you have, or think you have, on the owners and managers of CT that you think gives you the right, or will allow you to go on abusing other members of CT the way you do ?
Thanks for your polite answer, Bway.
Superior in what way, Bway ? Size ? Interior decor ?
Well-put, Lost Memory.
I, too, hope not, Lost Memory.
Thanks for refreshing us on all the details, Bway.
Ridgewood Rocks !
And / or hope and pray, as the case may be.
Thanks, Michael.
Right on, East Coast Rocker !
I’m glad to read that, Panzer65. I rather thought you’d seen images of the Madison’s interior lobby.
So do I, anniegirl, and have done so extensively, here on CT, on the pages of the many theatres I have known and loved.
Thank YOU, Life’s too short !
Thanks, Chris.
Please!!! There’s no way that the grand staircase could exist “still somewhere inside.”
How do you know this for sure, Warren ?
Panzer65, there is a link to an image someplace on this thread of the inner lobby of the RKO Madison, shortly after it opened around Thanksgiving 1927. Both the chandelier and the mirror above the landing of the grand staircase are BOTH in place, and the reflection of the fully lit chandelier in the mirror makes the chandelier, mirror and grand staircase look like God Himself in all His radiant glory sitting on His throne in heaven.
Apart from that, the inner lobby looks so beautiful and majestic, more like the inner lobby of an opera house or palace, than a movie theater in Ridgewood, Queens, near the Brooklyn border.
Good article, Warren. Thanks. If I were still single and living in Ridgewood, Queens, I, too, would probably be walking four miles or more to the Kew Gardens Cinemas to regularly see exceptional films there.
As opposed to exploding fireball movies at the Midway and Brandon Cinemas in downtown Forest Hills.
Yes, anniegirl, I have more than enough of the Meserole and many other NYC theaters inside me to last several lifetimes !
Based on something Ed Norton said on “The Honeymooners” in February 1967, I thought Perth Amboy, NJ, was the sun and fun capital of the world.
Thanks, HerbS. That would explain why Watkins Street in Brownsville has gone the way of Turnbull Avenue in Flatlands / Canarsie (East 105th St. station on the L line).
Thanks, Bway, for this info. Yes, ironic indeed, now that the Meserole is a drug store, and the Bushwick, a school.
Thanks, Bway, for the speculation and facts.