Look at this great ad for the neighborhood run of “Glenn Miller Story”. I wonder if the first show was at 5:30 pm on the opening day at all the theatres or it was just a catch line. View link
I just went to NY Times archive and checked the ad for Exorcist 2 and sure enough the Loew’s name has been dropped. Whoever ran the place after Loew’s may have closed quickly because the last listing I can find is the week of 7/28/77 when they played a double bill of “Black Street Fighter” and “Tatooed Hit Man”.
I’m just wondering about how landmark status works? There is not too much left that has not been severly altered so I’m just curious how this process works? This is really great news, the Diaz brothers have not put a dime into the place since they multi-plexed it. They barely make repairs or clean the place. The only reason the Ridgewood and Jackson survived is because there was no other theatres nearby. I think the Ridgewood can survive, it just needs to be upgraded. There are no theatres in Brooklyn hardly and I am sure they draw from that area a lot.
Odd that all the drive-ins were running this single, maybe because it was December? I can see them running a different second feature but all the drive-ins always played two movies. View link
All this in the name of “progress”. Not to sound negative but New York is becoming a cultural waste ground. Tear down and destroy the past so developers can make more money. I have lived in Forest Hills all my life and one by one all of the past is being erased. How long until the once grand Forest Hills Tennis Stadium is turned into condos? As far as the NYS Pavilion goes that’s another thing full of scandal and cover ups. The theatre has been pressuring the city to leave it abandoned so they can get emergency state funds to tear down the towers and tent of tomorrow, even though it was designed by Phillip Johnson. This despite an offer to turn it into space and flight museum. Don’t get me started on our former “puppet” Borough President Claire Schulman who used emergency funds that needed no approval to tear down the 1939 Aquacade Amphitheater, even though that building would have lasted another 500 years and had developers willing to sign to present concerts there like Jones Beach. Ms Schulman was pressured by contributors in Forest Hills and Kew Gardens who were afraid of the “element” a concert venue might draw. This is why sadly groups like the Landmarks Preservation Committee are a joke, what the hell do they protect? View link
Here is the summer 1980 movie clock showing the King’s open again
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Here is the ad for the non Loews engagement of “Exorcist 2”. Notice it’s playing day and date with King’s Plaza which it never did before.
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The old days :)
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Look at this great ad for the neighborhood run of “Glenn Miller Story”. I wonder if the first show was at 5:30 pm on the opening day at all the theatres or it was just a catch line.
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I can’t believe it but July 18, 1980 they appear again showing something called “Almost Human”
I just went to NY Times archive and checked the ad for Exorcist 2 and sure enough the Loew’s name has been dropped. Whoever ran the place after Loew’s may have closed quickly because the last listing I can find is the week of 7/28/77 when they played a double bill of “Black Street Fighter” and “Tatooed Hit Man”.
I can check but I guess around 1990.
I wish this would become a Sundance house.
With all the theatres we have had close in NY in the last 25 years I have always been shocked nobody tried this food pub idea here.
Im just thinking wasn’t this a twin at the end?
I’m just wondering about how landmark status works? There is not too much left that has not been severly altered so I’m just curious how this process works? This is really great news, the Diaz brothers have not put a dime into the place since they multi-plexed it. They barely make repairs or clean the place. The only reason the Ridgewood and Jackson survived is because there was no other theatres nearby. I think the Ridgewood can survive, it just needs to be upgraded. There are no theatres in Brooklyn hardly and I am sure they draw from that area a lot.
For that matter why must they keep tearing down drive-ins?
That’s a shame, I thought they would be running film.
Is such nastiness necessary because someone has an opinion?
I too was unable to come but would like to get involved.
ah thanks Warren
The end of an era, the Paramount closes in August 1964
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Universal tried to get a few more $$ out of Sweet Charity by using it as a second feature in December of 1972.
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Does anyone know what theatre Westend 125 is? I can’t find it listed on here?
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Odd that all the drive-ins were running this single, maybe because it was December? I can see them running a different second feature but all the drive-ins always played two movies.
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A story from the day after the closing
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Will anything but plexes be left in the next 2-3 years? Sad times for sure.
Here is a NY Times story from the day before the theatre closed.
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All this in the name of “progress”. Not to sound negative but New York is becoming a cultural waste ground. Tear down and destroy the past so developers can make more money. I have lived in Forest Hills all my life and one by one all of the past is being erased. How long until the once grand Forest Hills Tennis Stadium is turned into condos? As far as the NYS Pavilion goes that’s another thing full of scandal and cover ups. The theatre has been pressuring the city to leave it abandoned so they can get emergency state funds to tear down the towers and tent of tomorrow, even though it was designed by Phillip Johnson. This despite an offer to turn it into space and flight museum. Don’t get me started on our former “puppet” Borough President Claire Schulman who used emergency funds that needed no approval to tear down the 1939 Aquacade Amphitheater, even though that building would have lasted another 500 years and had developers willing to sign to present concerts there like Jones Beach. Ms Schulman was pressured by contributors in Forest Hills and Kew Gardens who were afraid of the “element” a concert venue might draw. This is why sadly groups like the Landmarks Preservation Committee are a joke, what the hell do they protect? View link
According to the web site the Staten Island Film Festival starts on
Thursday, June 01