Meserole Theatre
723 Manhattan Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11222
723 Manhattan Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11222
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reading all the comments about the Meserole brought back many memories for me. I was born on Leonard Street(#523) between Nassau and Driggs in 1943. I remember seeing the original Clarabel the clown from the Howdy Doody Show at the Meserole. I also bowled at Greenpoint Bowl the day it opened and the day it closed. There was a shoe factory above the bowling alley and they found a clause in the bowling alley lease that allowed them to close it. I then bowled at Woodhaven for many years. In the comments everyone refers to the “Chopin Theather”. It was the American before it became the Chopin. And on the corner there is a McDonalds.
Butch Olson
I remember debating Gleason’s address before. Bway, you recently took and posted pictures of those blocks of Chauncey Street. Perhaps Gleason lived at both addresses.
Thanks Bway..Anniegirl
I have also seen it listed as 328 Chauncey….you can google any of those addresses, and get Jackie Gleason stuff no matter which you use. I don’t know which is correct.
Yes sir PKoch…..Anniegirl
Good for you, Anniegirl. Yes, Gleason lived on Chauncey St., either 329 (mentioned in “The Honeymooners”)or 358(on his mother’s death cetificate), between B'way and Fulton St. near Saratoga Avenue.
Dear PKoch Jackie Gleason’s Mom lived on Chauncey Street in Bed Stuy near Bushwick Ave but such fun watching the Honeymooner’s and I have all the DVD’s of the Series. Love them all……Anniegirl
Thanks for the reminder about live theater and vaudeville.
I think Fred Allen once referred to TV as “tired vaudeville”.
I was also thinking of theaters located in the heart of Brooklyn or downtown Brooklyn, as opposed to a theater located in Greenpoint, the extreme northwest corner of Brooklyn.
Yes, Annie girl, my Greenpoint buddies and I used to joke about “the Point” as “The Garden Spot of the World”.
Ed Norton : I hear Jackie Gleason’s from our own Brooklyn neighborhood right here !
[laughter from audience]
Ralph Kramden : Jackie Gleason’s not in Brooklyn ! Jackie Gleason’s in the sun and fun capital of the world !
Ed Norton : What’s he doing in Perth Amboy ?!?!
[uproarious laughter from TV audience for about a minute]
Dear Koch, The Met was a top movie theater in Downtown Brooklyn. So was the Paramount and the Fox. But if you lived in the Greenpoint Area “ The Garden Spot of the World” the RKO Greenpoint was the Best. Anniegirl right Warren…Anniegirl
Thanks, Bway, I saw it.
Peter, in the Greenpoints section, I posted a fairly recent photo of the Greenpoint, which it’s location is now a Rainbow Shop.
Thanks, Warren. I would have thought the top theatre in all of Brooklyn would have been Loew’s Kings on Flatbush Avenue or Loew’s Metropolitan in downtown Brooklyn, rather than the Greenpoint, in the northwest corner of Brooklyn.
Thanks, Anniegirl. I never knew the RKO Greenpoint existed. It was fun learning about it. It was not far from the Meserole, the Chopin, the southeastern corner of Manhattan Avenue and Calyer St., where a friend of mine from high school lived, or from Calyer St. itself, where another h.s. friend of mine lived.
The marquee and entrance on Manhattan Avenue seem very small compared to the theater itself.
Yes PKoch go to status look for Closed and Demolished scroll down to RKO Greenpoint Brooklyn. Anniegirl
Anniegirl, where was the RKO Greenpoint ? Does it have a page on this site ?
Dear Warren, I do not remember the Meserole being closed for any period of time in the 50’s, but I do remember going to the RKO Greenpoint with my Aunt’s when I was a kid in the 50’s. So It could have happened. It’s a mystery to me…….Anniegirl
Yep PKOCH My Husband worked for that company until we moved to Long Island. He had many a good customers. At one point he was a owner-operator. It was a good company and very safe.Bway and Warren are very up on the Theater Circut information. Anniegirl
You’re welcome, anniegirl. I think the phone # for the Forest Hills location of Four Ones was, and still is, (718) 441-1111. For Ridgewood, it was (718) 456-1111.
Bway is also very knowledgable about the LIRR in NYC.
Dear Koch My Husband worked for the Forest Hills location of Four Ones.. Thanks for the information on the LIRR station anniegirl
Yes. The last day of operation on the Rockaway Line, from Ozone Park, to Penn Station, Manhattan, was June 11, 1962.
The Parkside LIRR station closed in 1962.
Anniegirl :
The station was on the same level as the tracks, just north of Metropolitan Avenue (going towards Yellowstone Blvd.) one wooden platform on each side.
My parents and I used Four Ones Car Service when we lived in Ridgewood, until October 1999. Also Lindy’s.
Dear pkoch..My Husband used to work for Four Ones Car Service and we used to pass under the LIRR station all the time. I did not know that there was station under there..It’s great history. there is a Mall there now it is so congested by the Car Wash Area in the back..Anniegirl
KarenN, please go see “Hannibal Rising” for me. Thanks.
The “Parkside” station of the LIRR Rockaway Line, now abandoned, used to be right near where Woodhaven Lanes is now. Go to the page for the Cinemart Theater, # 4615, click on the last link provided by Lost Memory. Scroll down to the picture of the RR overpass with the sign for the “brushless” car wash. The “Parkside” station was once just to the left (north) of that sign. The overpass is the abandoned Rockaway Line.
Bway will back me up on this.
Yeah, the phrarmacy is right under the balcony. The cashiers are in the old lobby area. You can actually still feel the flow of the theater walking in, through the lobby, inner lobby area (although doors gone), and then entrance into the theater. They did an outstanding job.