Regarding your question, Bway, perhaps there was deliberate destruction between March 8 2008 and now, like the fire that was set in late 1978 or early 1979 in our good and close friend the RKO Madison Theatre.
Sad but true. Thanks, John. Interesting that the article says “auditorium”, singular, because there were five cinemas in there. I didn’t know the seating areas were in such bad shape.
No matter what change is rumored, I’ll believe it when I see it.
I’ll be walking by there this coming Friday morning, August 13, and will make my usual report here and on Bushwick Buddies after I have done so.
I walked by the Ridgewood Theatre at about 10:30 a.m. this morning, Friday July 9 2010. No change since my last visit on June 18, 2010, except that there was some stuff back between the outer lobby gate and inner lobby doors. Looked like the 1990 Rolling Stones poster was back up in the ticket booth.
Great article, John D. “Montrose Morris” was on the June 27 2010 Bushwick walking tour. I spoke to her about the Loews Gates, Monroe, Century / Shubert and RKO Bushwick Theatres at the end of the tour before heading off on my own to the B-52 bus to Ridgewood.
I first knew The Brownstoner as a magazine in fall 1977 when I was a student at Cooper Union, from one of my profs, Jean LeMee, who lived in a Brooklyn brownstone at the time.
I like the simile in the article of the RKO Bushwick as a ship. Very apt and clever !
I walked by the RKO Bushwick yesterday afternoon (Sunday June 27 2010) at about 4:30 PM after attending Kevin Walsh’s Forgotten NY walking tour of Bushwick. There was scaffolding on the ground floor on the Bway side, and the big round porthole on the rounded corner near the roof appeared damaged, filled in, or covered over.
That is no doubt a factor but I think something more is involved here.
Yes. To paraphrase Shakespeare, something is rotten in the Ridgewood Theatre as well as in Denmark.
Regarding your question, Bway, perhaps there was deliberate destruction between March 8 2008 and now, like the fire that was set in late 1978 or early 1979 in our good and close friend the RKO Madison Theatre.
But why ? To collect insurance money ?
Another good thought, Bway. Thanks.
Thanks, Bway. Good thoughts.
Time will tell, and we shall see.
Sad but true. Thanks, John. Interesting that the article says “auditorium”, singular, because there were five cinemas in there. I didn’t know the seating areas were in such bad shape.
No matter what change is rumored, I’ll believe it when I see it.
I’ll be walking by there this coming Friday morning, August 13, and will make my usual report here and on Bushwick Buddies after I have done so.
Thanks, Tinseltoes.
Thanks for your insights, John D. and NativeForestHiller. I remain optimistic.
Indeed it does, albeit without Warren and Lost Memory.
Thanks.
We shall see !
larry 2, that’s what I read what I’ve typed before I hit “Submit” !
I walked by the Ridgewood Theatre at about 10:30 a.m. this morning, Friday July 9 2010. No change since my last visit on June 18, 2010, except that there was some stuff back between the outer lobby gate and inner lobby doors. Looked like the 1990 Rolling Stones poster was back up in the ticket booth.
Thanks Bway for mentioning this.
Great article, John D. “Montrose Morris” was on the June 27 2010 Bushwick walking tour. I spoke to her about the Loews Gates, Monroe, Century / Shubert and RKO Bushwick Theatres at the end of the tour before heading off on my own to the B-52 bus to Ridgewood.
I first knew The Brownstoner as a magazine in fall 1977 when I was a student at Cooper Union, from one of my profs, Jean LeMee, who lived in a Brooklyn brownstone at the time.
I like the simile in the article of the RKO Bushwick as a ship. Very apt and clever !
Thanks, John D.
Apparently no one took pictures of the former Loews Gates and RKO Bushwick theatres at the end of the tour, but I did mention them.
Thanks, Tinseltoes.
Ditto, LM !
Thanks, Mike. Any idea why LM retired from CT ?
“Won’t you come home, Lost Mem'ry, won’t you come home ?”
You and me both, Bway.
LM’s latest post on CT that I am aware of was in May 2009, about the Empire Theater in Lewiston, Maine, page # 11229 here on CT.
Thanks for letting us know, Bway !
Is the Empire Theater still standing ? If so, what is it now used for ?
I walked by the RKO Bushwick yesterday afternoon (Sunday June 27 2010) at about 4:30 PM after attending Kevin Walsh’s Forgotten NY walking tour of Bushwick. There was scaffolding on the ground floor on the Bway side, and the big round porthole on the rounded corner near the roof appeared damaged, filled in, or covered over.