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Comfortably Cool commented about B.F. Keith's rooftop signage top right. August, 1917 photo credit William Hassler. on Oct 7, 2019 at 10:50 am

This photo is nowhere near the Colonial Theatre…B.F. Keith’s signage in top right corner is for the Palace Theatre. This is a view looking north from Times Square. Electrified Wrigley’s sign is atop the Putnam Building, which was demolished to make way for the Paramount Theatre & Office Building.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Loew's Jersey Theatre on Oct 6, 2019 at 10:05 am

The system of sending NYC Capitol stage revues to Loew’s “Wonder” theatres was becoming prohibitively expensive, and would be ended in the wake of the financial stock market crisis soon to come.

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Comfortably Cool commented about BRIC Arts Media House on Oct 5, 2019 at 2:09 pm

Republic’s B&W musical western was currently running at the Brooklyn Strand on a double bill with “Nobody’s Darling.” The celebration at Borough Hall was part of the hoopla for the forthcoming engagement at Madison Square Garden of a World’s Championship Rodeo with Roy Rogers and Trigger as headliners.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Kenmore Theatre on Oct 5, 2019 at 11:22 am

Opened exclusively at the Baronet in Manhattan and the RKO Kenmore in Flatbush, Brooklyn on May 1st, 1974.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Embassy 1,2,3 Theatre on Oct 5, 2019 at 9:35 am

R.I.P., Diahann Carroll (1935-2019)

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Comfortably Cool commented about RKO Chester Theatre on Oct 4, 2019 at 11:07 am

Ad for the rival Loew’s circuit on that same day of 1950 can be viewed here

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Comfortably Cool commented about New Boro Park Theatre on Oct 4, 2019 at 10:49 am

As the second Loew’s in the neighborhood, the Boro Park had first-run programs simultaneous with the RKO circuit, which had no theatre of its own in that area of Brooklyn. In this ad, the Boro Park is listed at the very bottom with “Broken Arrow” & “Bunco Squad.”

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Comfortably Cool commented about Radio City Music Hall on Oct 4, 2019 at 8:02 am

Paul Draper, the great tap dancer and choreographer whose career was later ruined by unproven accusations of Communist sympathies, was guest headliner of the stage revue. More about Paul Draper here

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Comfortably Cool commented about Paramount Theatre on Oct 3, 2019 at 3:45 pm

The movie’s title and catchphrase “Anything can happen when Cooper starts blowing wild” incited a national epidemic of smutty jokes involving an A-Z list of Hollywood legends.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Queens Theatre on Oct 2, 2019 at 3:19 pm

The Cinerama presentation was in the Transportation & Travel Pavilion, a huge domed building that has since been demolished.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Palace Theatre on Oct 1, 2019 at 2:57 pm

Can’t answer, but ad does not proclaim “Nothing Cut But the Prices,” which was often done during such bookings.

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Comfortably Cool commented about AMC Fresh Meadows 7 on Oct 1, 2019 at 10:01 am

Century’s Meadows is at left, adjacent to white brick Horn & Hardart Restaurant. Construction for the Long Island Expressway had yet to reach the area served by Horace Harding Boulevard. Large branch store of Bloomingdale’s faces 188th Street.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Rivoli Theatre on Sep 30, 2019 at 2:14 pm

That was previously uploaded by a member who removed it when they departed from the website. Their camera statistics are still displayed.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Palace Theatre on Sep 30, 2019 at 1:06 pm

Still on Broadway, but two blocks south from the Rivoli at the RKO Palace.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Astor Theatre on Sep 30, 2019 at 10:19 am

The New York Mets had amazed fans by winning the National League Pennant and would go on to trample the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series of Baseball.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Patio Theatre on Sep 29, 2019 at 1:37 pm

The Patio had five acts of vaudeville on Saturday & Sunday, but none famous enough to be listed…The ad covers only Brooklyn. Century had additional theatres in Queens and Long Island.

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Comfortably Cool commented about AMC Fresh Meadows 7 on Sep 29, 2019 at 9:04 am

The largest single-screen cinema built in the NYC borough of Queens after the end of WW2 will be 70 years old in November of this year. Many photos taken by patrons of the current multiplex can be viewed here

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Comfortably Cool commented about Radio City Music Hall on Sep 28, 2019 at 8:47 am

Curiously, the distributor was preparing to open his own midtown cinema in December of that year on nearby 54th Street, but I guess that “The Christmas Tree” was too important a movie to postpone until then.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Radio City Music Hall on Sep 27, 2019 at 8:43 am

Here’s a link to The Hollywood Reporter’s review of the 50th Anniversary Tribute to “Easy Rider” at RCMH last week. View

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Comfortably Cool commented about Atrium am Hauptbahnhof on Sep 26, 2019 at 8:28 am

112 uploads yesterday by this person, mostly of generic posters and magazine covers, and totally undated. What is the purpose of all this? CT is supposed to be a website about movie theatres, not movies themselves. There are other websites for that type of uploading.

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Comfortably Cool commented about RKO Grand Theatre on Sep 26, 2019 at 8:12 am

The new Grand was launched by the Van Nomikos Circuit, which was predominantly neighborhood sites including the Ace, Lincoln, Parkway, Rex, City, and Empress. Less than a year later, RKO Theatres expressed interest in the Grand, and Van Nomikos sold them the management lease for 13 years, with a profits-sharing arrangement, according to trade reports.

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Comfortably Cool commented about RKO Grand Theatre on Sep 25, 2019 at 12:09 pm

Modernized playhouse re-opened on September 26th, 1942, with a policy of first-run double features plus a compilation of the latest newsreels.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Bali Theater on Sep 24, 2019 at 1:08 pm

This is a generic distributor’s poster. Are we to assume that “Anastasia” played at the Bali? No date provided.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Premier Theatre on Sep 24, 2019 at 10:41 am

Paramount’s Technicolor reissue package had a total running time of four hours and six minutes.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Regal UA Midway on Sep 23, 2019 at 8:54 am

Those who remember the Midway Theatre as a modernistic masterwork by Thomas W. Lamb will probably experience extreme nausea when viewing these recent images snapped by patrons. Click here