I don’t think people realize the loss to a city when something like this theater is torn down, with nothing to replace it. Why do we have to look at a multi-acre parking lot for the next thirty years due to someone else’s shortsightedness? Another example is Coulter’s Department Store on Wilshire Boulevard, which was torn down in 1980 and remains a large hole in the ground as of today. Very sad.
I was watching a 1975 episode of the Rockford Files yesterday. In one scene, Rockford was driving down an unidentified street in the Valley. There was a theater with a large Pussycat marquee. I wonder if there was more than one Pussycat in the Valley in the mid 1970s.
Fairfax Avenue is changing rapidly. Some of the older businesses that catered to the local Jewish clientele are closing up and being replaced by trendy boutiques and galleries. It remains to be seen if the theater will survive the gentrification process.
Starring the immortal Tempest Storm as Herself. I miss Russ Meyer. I saw Attack of the Supervixens when I was 12, sitting on the railroad tracks behind my local drive-in (See Absecon Drive-In on this site). It was an educational experience.
Here is a boxing card dated Wednesday, April 29, 1981:
Paramount Theatre, Staten Island, New York
Carmelo Negron 122 W Edwin Santiago 128 TKO 3 8
Lightweight Johnny Verderosa 131 W Ron Aurit 132 TKO 7 8
Welterweight Robert Thomas 147 L Frank Morgante 145 PTS 4 4
Pablo Pizzarro 174 W Furgan Ali 181 TKO 3 4
Lightweight Raymond (Ramon) Ortiz 134½ W Ben Fuentes 134 TKO 1 4
Heavyweight Dennis Reilly 210 W Al Monday 181 TKO 1 4
Welterweight Johnny Marrone 147 W Sal Travella 147 KO 1 4
Was the Paramount ever used to sell sporting goods? This is from a site detailing the history of Staten Island:
Just beyond [on Bay Street] is the site of Commodore Vanderbilt’s childhood home. It was demolished in 1922 to make way for the Paramount Theatre, which today houses a sporting goods store. This was “The Commodore’s” Childhood home. With his mother’s encouragement he began his first venture in shipping by purchasing and offering for hire a small sail craft. He was born on Long Island. After marriage he built a Greek Revival mansion nearby.
I would post the current establishment’s website here, but as I have already been excoriated on another page for being prurient and salacious, I’ll leave it alone. Look it up on Google.
Here are some photos from the Denver Public Library:
http://tinyurl.com/ef6t8
http://tinyurl.com/etqap
http://tinyurl.com/jlkqz
http://tinyurl.com/khqmj
http://tinyurl.com/z3zp8
http://tinyurl.com/hnbf6
http://tinyurl.com/jy3po
http://tinyurl.com/hgyoe
http://tinyurl.com/gg7gh
Since Chuck’s link has expired, here is the expanded view of the photo above:
http://tinyurl.com/grkkl
Here are some photos from the Denver Public Library, circa 1913:
http://tinyurl.com/k58v8
http://tinyurl.com/f64on
Here is a 1985 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/fp9l2
Here is a photo from 1940:
http://tinyurl.com/gydhp
There was a premiere at this theater a few years ago:
http://www.dragonandthehawk.com/premiere.html
There is some interest in turning the theater into a community center:
http://tinyurl.com/l95lg
http://tinyurl.com/mfch6
And another article from the same source:
http://tinyurl.com/pgj48
Another photo:
http://flickr.com/photos/spoinknet/53915373/
Here is an article with some local history:
http://tinyurl.com/k6uxg
Here is some local history:
http://tinyurl.com/k6uxg
I don’t think people realize the loss to a city when something like this theater is torn down, with nothing to replace it. Why do we have to look at a multi-acre parking lot for the next thirty years due to someone else’s shortsightedness? Another example is Coulter’s Department Store on Wilshire Boulevard, which was torn down in 1980 and remains a large hole in the ground as of today. Very sad.
I was watching a 1975 episode of the Rockford Files yesterday. In one scene, Rockford was driving down an unidentified street in the Valley. There was a theater with a large Pussycat marquee. I wonder if there was more than one Pussycat in the Valley in the mid 1970s.
The consensus is that the name should be changed to the Star Theatre.
Fairfax Avenue is changing rapidly. Some of the older businesses that catered to the local Jewish clientele are closing up and being replaced by trendy boutiques and galleries. It remains to be seen if the theater will survive the gentrification process.
Here is a photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ognf2
Starring the immortal Tempest Storm as Herself. I miss Russ Meyer. I saw Attack of the Supervixens when I was 12, sitting on the railroad tracks behind my local drive-in (See Absecon Drive-In on this site). It was an educational experience.
Here are some photos of the Garrick shortly before its demolition in April 1950, courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society:
http://tinyurl.com/k9lo6
http://tinyurl.com/oq9d8
http://tinyurl.com/p7srp
Here are some photos from the Minnesota Historical Society, circa 1940:
http://tinyurl.com/f5ywr
http://tinyurl.com/lptjz
http://tinyurl.com/qsm4w
http://tinyurl.com/jblm7
Here are some photos of the interior, circa 1929:
http://tinyurl.com/zcwyh
http://tinyurl.com/hro84
http://tinyurl.com/rzmuf
http://tinyurl.com/nc382
Here is a boxing card dated Wednesday, April 29, 1981:
Paramount Theatre, Staten Island, New York
Carmelo Negron 122 W Edwin Santiago 128 TKO 3 8
Lightweight Johnny Verderosa 131 W Ron Aurit 132 TKO 7 8
Welterweight Robert Thomas 147 L Frank Morgante 145 PTS 4 4
Pablo Pizzarro 174 W Furgan Ali 181 TKO 3 4
Lightweight Raymond (Ramon) Ortiz 134½ W Ben Fuentes 134 TKO 1 4
Heavyweight Dennis Reilly 210 W Al Monday 181 TKO 1 4
Welterweight Johnny Marrone 147 W Sal Travella 147 KO 1 4
Was the Paramount ever used to sell sporting goods? This is from a site detailing the history of Staten Island:
Just beyond [on Bay Street] is the site of Commodore Vanderbilt’s childhood home. It was demolished in 1922 to make way for the Paramount Theatre, which today houses a sporting goods store. This was “The Commodore’s” Childhood home. With his mother’s encouragement he began his first venture in shipping by purchasing and offering for hire a small sail craft. He was born on Long Island. After marriage he built a Greek Revival mansion nearby.
I would post the current establishment’s website here, but as I have already been excoriated on another page for being prurient and salacious, I’ll leave it alone. Look it up on Google.
Photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ncv77
Theater in the news:
http://tinyurl.com/jaev6