Not for nothin, but these imbeciles at The New York Times really seem to be impressed with themselves – they are under the mistaken impression that the stuff they write is worth $3.95 per article to look at online –
Well, folks, they’re at it again – the entertainment moguls at “City Cinemas, the most dynamic and comfortable theaters in New York City” [quote from one of their help-wanted ads – LOL!] – I haven’t heard any details yet, but the rumor on the grapevine is that the C1-2-3 will close this June – and whether they are going to level the place or convert it to retail I have not yet heard. Stay tuned to this station for further developments….
The zoning on that particular block did not prohibit a marquee structure, but it did prohibit exterior illuminated signs on any business. The Festival, as well as many of the other businesses on the block got around that by having the illuminated sign inside, facing out the window.
If you could send it to me too, I’d appreciate it – – I have it packed away somewhere back in Ohio but I haven’t seen it in 20 years – as I recall it was a full-page with a lot of red ink, and used the script “Cinema I & II” for the sigs.
Tim- I have a photobucket page with a number of theatres in Cleveland and elsewhere – http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b123/dave-bronx/ – If you want to send me the photos I could set up a ‘Great Lakes Mall Cinema’ page and post a link here.
The Riverside was owned by the local chainlette called Community Circuit – headed by Bert Lefkowich. Loews bought out Community Circuit in the mid 1970s and twinned it. I think Loews ran it til it was demolished.
The politicians CAN straighten out Passaic if they wanted to, and New York City is an example. For decades in NYC we put up with do-nothing mayors (several of whom I voted for) and other pols who moaned and cried “There’s nothing we can do about all the murder, drugs and crime!”, and the city continued to degenerate. Then we got Guiliani and he plowed through all the B.S. got the job done and worried about what some hack judge or the New York Times would say later. The hypocritical New York Times would constantly lament that the muggers and dope dealers rights were being violated by Guiliani, while at the same time their employees were being mugged daily on 43rd St. in front of the Times' building. Guiliani proved that all these previous mayors and city council people were just a bunch of windbags, only there to get their face in the papers and feed at the public trough. I didn’t agree with everything that Guiliani did here, but overall he was good for the city and brought it back from the brink of the abyss. Passaic New Jersey is at the brink right now, and the good citizens of Passaic need to find their own Rudy Guiliani and put him in the mayors office before it’s too late.
I would agree that it is sad for the good long-time or former residents of Passaic to have to watch their town disintegrate before their eyes. My contempt is for the polititions of Passaic – they are responsible for not enforcing zoning codes, not forcing people to maintain their property, not enforcing laws against prostitution, dope dealing and vagrancy for so long that the place has deteriorated to such a state that now appears to be unrecoverable. With all the problems that the City of Passaic has, all they seem to focus on is this theatre. I would not want to see school children wandering through this neighborhood, but not because of the theatre. They can knock down the theatre and after it’s gone the various vagrants, whores, riff-raff and other trash will still be hanging around there. And they are the ones that the dimwit polititions should be trying to protect the school children from.
It is by far and away the nicest and best maintained theatre they have.
Not for nothin, but these imbeciles at The New York Times really seem to be impressed with themselves – they are under the mistaken impression that the stuff they write is worth $3.95 per article to look at online –
The excellent photos of the Ziegfeld auditorium, mentioned above and taken by PH can be seen here:
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The Cinema World opened in the early 1970s, as I recall, and was operated by Cinemette –
Well, folks, they’re at it again – the entertainment moguls at “City Cinemas, the most dynamic and comfortable theaters in New York City” [quote from one of their help-wanted ads – LOL!] – I haven’t heard any details yet, but the rumor on the grapevine is that the C1-2-3 will close this June – and whether they are going to level the place or convert it to retail I have not yet heard. Stay tuned to this station for further developments….
btw, I did receive the Parmatown and Randall ads – Thanks –
hmmm – thats odd – try this one: (original, eh?) – thanks!
The zoning on that particular block did not prohibit a marquee structure, but it did prohibit exterior illuminated signs on any business. The Festival, as well as many of the other businesses on the block got around that by having the illuminated sign inside, facing out the window.
KUDOS to BrianC!
Please add me to the list… – thanks!
If you could send it to me too, I’d appreciate it – – I have it packed away somewhere back in Ohio but I haven’t seen it in 20 years – as I recall it was a full-page with a lot of red ink, and used the script “Cinema I & II” for the sigs.
No , no twin, AMC lists all the theatres by name and number of screens on everything, including, apparently, the advertising.
Tim- I have a photobucket page with a number of theatres in Cleveland and elsewhere – http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b123/dave-bronx/ – If you want to send me the photos I could set up a ‘Great Lakes Mall Cinema’ page and post a link here.
The Todd Mart Cinema was part of Genreal Cinemas Buffalo Division – Pat Corey was the Division Manager.
His Majesty The Grand Pooh-bah from Toronto would not have known class if it hit him in the head –
Wasn’t this a Loews Theatre before it closed?
…and they could put performing arts related classrooms in the hotel, of course after the place is thoroughly fumegated and scrubbed.
Finally, someone over there is actually using their brain – it can be used for something other than porn….
The Riverside was owned by the local chainlette called Community Circuit – headed by Bert Lefkowich. Loews bought out Community Circuit in the mid 1970s and twinned it. I think Loews ran it til it was demolished.
The organ then had to be in the old Ezella – installed in 1926. The “new” Ezella was a contemporary of the Mayland, which was built in the 1940s.
I remember seeing it in the Press and Plain Dealer movie directories in the mid 1960s – it was always at the head of the alphabetical listing.
The politicians CAN straighten out Passaic if they wanted to, and New York City is an example. For decades in NYC we put up with do-nothing mayors (several of whom I voted for) and other pols who moaned and cried “There’s nothing we can do about all the murder, drugs and crime!”, and the city continued to degenerate. Then we got Guiliani and he plowed through all the B.S. got the job done and worried about what some hack judge or the New York Times would say later. The hypocritical New York Times would constantly lament that the muggers and dope dealers rights were being violated by Guiliani, while at the same time their employees were being mugged daily on 43rd St. in front of the Times' building. Guiliani proved that all these previous mayors and city council people were just a bunch of windbags, only there to get their face in the papers and feed at the public trough. I didn’t agree with everything that Guiliani did here, but overall he was good for the city and brought it back from the brink of the abyss. Passaic New Jersey is at the brink right now, and the good citizens of Passaic need to find their own Rudy Guiliani and put him in the mayors office before it’s too late.
I would agree that it is sad for the good long-time or former residents of Passaic to have to watch their town disintegrate before their eyes. My contempt is for the polititions of Passaic – they are responsible for not enforcing zoning codes, not forcing people to maintain their property, not enforcing laws against prostitution, dope dealing and vagrancy for so long that the place has deteriorated to such a state that now appears to be unrecoverable. With all the problems that the City of Passaic has, all they seem to focus on is this theatre. I would not want to see school children wandering through this neighborhood, but not because of the theatre. They can knock down the theatre and after it’s gone the various vagrants, whores, riff-raff and other trash will still be hanging around there. And they are the ones that the dimwit polititions should be trying to protect the school children from.
The street-corners and back-alleys are where they “work” – they reside in the decaying houses, apartments and projects nearby.
There’s a difference?