Ridgewood Theatre
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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I don’t know. Apparently, one has to look in other newspapers besides Newsday to find out. I said Coney Island because there were once theatres there, and because it’s a busy, famous section of Brooklyn with lots of tourism.
There’s an (open) movie theater in Coney Island?
Thanks for your answer, Warren, about Newsday. It’s odd that Newsday overlooks the theaters in downtown Brooklyn and Coney Island, to name a few.
I last went here in the early 1980’s, when I lived in the area, and it was pretty moldy then!
Lostmemory, did you get the email I sent you last week? I don’t know if I have your correct email, but it didn’t bounce back, so I think it may have gone through….
Thanks, Bway.
As I have posted already, I was last in the Ridgewood on Saturday, Sept. 12th 1992. It seemed OK then.
Yes, exaggeation can be the “spice of life” (and of fansite posting) at times.
I think you can even pick up Newsday in Manhattan if you want to…. I don’t know if they have different editions for different areas. I know they used to. If you got one particular edition, that could be the reason it doesn’t list everything.
As for the comments on the condition of the Ridgewood, unless someone has been there recently for a movie, I don’t see how anyone can comment on the condition.
While I am sure the Ridgewood isn’t the cleanest place inside (heck it wasn’t even when I used to go there in the 80’s)….but I am sure a lot of the comments on it are just a bit exagerated.
That’s an interesting point, Warren, and thanks for posting it.
Does Newsday purport to cover all of Brooklyn and Queens ?
Have you, or do you intend to, contact Newsday about their error ?
That bad, Warren ? When was the last time you saw a film at the Ridgewood ? The problem with dining first is that, if the Ridgewood is as nauseating inside as you say it is, we might lose what we’ve eaten inside the Ridgewood, and add to the grunge within.
The advantage of eating after seeing a film, of course, is that we can discuss both the film and the current state of the Ridgewood Theater over our meal.
mrbillyc, the Simpsons movie is now playing at the Ridgewood ? Good, now I can sleep tonight. Civilization as we know it is safe, for the time being. Thanks.
I passed the Ridgewood last night and I saw that the Simpsons Movie is playing there this week. Do'h!
frankie, BklynJim will call me at work this coming Wednesday with his two best dates (between now and the 30th, his last day in NYC this visit). I will compare them with mine, we will agree on two dates between ourselves, then get back to Bway, Ed Solero and Lost Memory with them, and (hopefully) we will then all agtee on a date and be able to get together for a movie at the Ridgewood followed by dinner, then.
Hi, PKoch ! Are you guys really getting together at the Ridgewood ? Hope I didn’t miss it ! Yes, I’m still “frankie”, not any other pseudonym, just myself ! Ashamed to say I haven’t been back to the Ridgewood since that last time a year ago. If you guys are goin', give the details here !
yes … I looked it up on the IMDb … release date, 15 or 17 December 1976.
I’m glad you had a fun time then and there, Bway. Like me, ten years before, when “Batman and Robin” pulled up to the Ridgewood in the Batmobile, to promote THEIR film.
Walt Disney’s “The Shaggy DA”….
Well, I said, I was a little kid!
Bway and RobertR, what was the film, and who was the star ?
Holy Crap!!! I saw that there as a kid when that was playing there at that time! I remember it like it was yesterday….
Christmas 1976 the star of the film made a personal appearance and brought along some friends.
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Zkid, in the words of the Bruce Willis character, from the first “Die Hard” film :
“Welcome to the party, pal !!!!”
The Ridgewood Theater party, that is !
I quite agree with you, Zkid. I always pick up after myself, whether it’s in a movie theater or anywhere else. I commend you for seeing the owner and manager about the missing toilet seat.
I’m glad you enjoyed “Live Free Or Die Hard” at the Ridgewood. Did you see it at orchestra or balcony level ? I saw the original “Die Hard” at balcony level at the Ridgewood in September 1988. I think I posted about it somewhere on this Ridgewood Theater page
To answer your question PKoch, to preserve it and protect it I AM cleaning up after myself, because, yes eventhough there are a lot of people who lwave their trash behind, there are also a lot of people who respect and realize that there are showings of movies in this room and would try to make an effort in keeping THEIR movie theater CLEAN so it would be infested with rats or look so dirty. Yes I believe the ushers have a job and that includes cleaning up after the movie ends BUT as a person who has ethics the moral thing for a citizen to do is help out with their own soda cup! And what else? Mmm, maybe not trying to rip off a toilet seat in the bathroom! If I see those kind of things and I were the owners? I personally wouldn’t do NOTHING to the theater because in a month or two ithings would be destroyed and damaged anyway!!! I just went in there the other day to see Die Hard Movie (great movie by the way!) and I told the manager and owner about the toilet seat and they were SO grateful that I did. so YES,as a present Ridgewoodite, to protect and preserve I feel I am doing something. And if more people do this, the owners will hopefully BE ABLE TO upgrade it!
People seem to leave their trash behind at most theaters nowadays, that is not a problem only the Ridgewood faces.
Some of us ex-Ridgewoodites are planning to meet at the Ridgewood Theater next month to see a film there and afterwards have a meal in a nearby Ridgewood eatery.
Zkid, you are so right.
What are YOU doing to preserve, protect, and upgrade the Ridgewood Theater ?
As for “hype”, I maintain that there is something significant in the Ridgewood Theater page being one of the longest, if not THE longest, pages, on the Cinema Treasures website, attesting to the presence of a large, vocal and strong cyber-community of current and ex-Ridgewoodites.
First of all, I think that there is a lot of hype about the Ridgewood theater and how it is the oldest one in our neighborhood that we have left, but the ironic thing about all these positive comments about our theater and most of us don’t help it become the best it can be. If we talk the talk, we should walk the walk. A lot of us go in and out into this wonderful historical nieghborhood theater and don’t care enough for it to throw our garbage in the trash cans, STOP writing on the bathroom walls, STOP causing disruption when watching a movie or just leaving it a damn right MESS!!!! If we want a nice, clean, upgraded movie theater we should be able to help out and EARN IT!!! Maybe if we show that we are willing to put our two cents in, maybe they’ll do more to the theater and more people will ENJOY to be in it!!!!!
Interesting add…and just think, my heart almost skipped a beat, as at first glance it looked like “Ridgewood Folly”, but of course, the Folly was for the Folly Theater. There’s something about seeing those two words together that send shivers down my spine at this site, haha.