Paramount Theatre
1501 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
1501 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
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Anyone remember or have ever been to the Paramount around 59th st.
It was round and small street level box office, the theatre was about 200 feet below street…
The old Paramount was gutted for the NY Times. The space they used was large from the former theatre.
I saw it also but, they also had acts on stage at the Hard Rock..
It looked very large….anyone know if they are using the theatre shell of the old Paramount? has any of you been inside?
Just wondering….
I went to the Paramount in the 50’s to see Alan Freed and his shows. I do not believe they also showed ie during the rock,n roll engagements.
I do not believe they had a movie showing during the rock'n roll shows in the 50’s. As I remember, there was only as show.
I have fond memories of that Gleason show, I took my parents to see it and my mother talked about it for months.
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In the late 50,s at the Paramount how is this lineup for a concert?On the marquee,In Person Alan Freed & Holiday of Stars, Fats Domino, Jeery Lee Lewis,The Everly Brothers,Buddy Holly and the Crickets,The Rays,Danny and the Juniors,Paul Anka,on the screen “Its Great to be Young”. September 1957.
Sorry William I meant to write Tinsletoes had the title wrong.
I believe he meant “North” and not “Lost”
vito, your ad post has the same title as I posted “North to Alaska”.
I am sure William meant “Noth To Alaska"
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Tinseltoes, you must mean “North to Alaska”. “Lost in Alaska” is a Abbott & Costello film.
Wasn’t CALAMITY JANE the last feature film/stage show combo at the Paramount? I believe there were occasional stage attractions after that, but this ended the weekly combo shows.
Thanks. I guess I should have read these all the way through.
Brad, see my post from May 30 above.
Wasn’t there another Paramount theatre in NYC. I remember seeing Children of a Lesser God in 1986 at a theatre on the upper west side called the Paramount. The theatre was actually downstairs underground.
It is now an underground parking lot.
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Anybody know the fate of the other Paramount in Mahattan? It was on Columbus Circle, built in the early 70s, adjacent to the Gulf+Western tower, which is now a Trump hotel. The theater was below street level, and you went down an escalator near the subway entrance. I just checked Google Maps, and there’s no sign of it, nor do I find mention of it here. I know that I saw “Young Frankenstein” there.
Renewing link.
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Thank you for your good words Life’s-too-short. Click here for another photograph of the Paramount Theatre taken in 1937 by George Mann. As in Tinseltoes' entry above, Martha Raye is again on screen, this time in “Double of Nothing” with Bing Crosby.
That entire photo set is very nice Brad.
Click on the year for photographs of the Paramount Theatre taken in 1932 , 1935 and 1939 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.
And you got a preview to in that picture for that night.
Remember it was also a marketing gimmick to get people into the theatres by offering a Big screen television for special events. Up until the 70’s theatres offered those closed circuit fights in theatres using those large RCA type projectors. On those nights the manager hoped and prayed the feed would hold and not lose picture.
Yes Bill, the Boob tube I believe we called it.
But there was a positive side, we went all out to beat tv with great advancesments like 70mm,Cinerama,CinemScope and Stereo sound. Then of course we had all those marvelous gimmicks (bless em) 3-D, odorama
and the rest. Silly stuff of course but we had fun exhibiting them and for a while anyway the audiences loved it.
I’m surprised they didn’t find another word to call it besides “Television”. TV and movies were bitter enemies in 1951, right?