Ridgewood Theatre
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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Thanks, mikemovies. I had forgotten about that particular William Castle gimmick !
Yes that is the same ‘13 GHOSTS’. In the theatre you needed special glasses to view the ghosts. The process was called ‘“Illusion-O’.
More power to you, mikemovies, for your William Castle and F F Coppola DVD purchases. Enjoy them along with your popcorn !
Ordered some movies from deepdiscountdvd fella’s. In my opinion the prices are very reasonable. ‘House on Haunted Hill’ starring Vincent Price for $7.00. ‘ 13 GHOSTS’ directed by William Castle was more costly at $9.42. ‘Dementia 13’ directed by Francis Ford Coppola for $6.00. Also ordered ‘The Tingler’ starring Vincent Price for the sum of $6.05. I will purchase some popcorn and enjoy these movies over the holiday season. haha
Good thinking, Bway.
I tend to confuse the Ridgewood and Madison Theaters when viewing them from the Forest Avenue el station, perhaps because they both have outer walls on Madison Street, which one is almost looking straight down when viewing the theaters from the Forest Avenue station platform.
Once I board the Manhattan-bound train, though, and continue to look southwest through its windows at the theaters, of course I get good separate views of both of them, including that great view of the Madison’s western wall when the train rounds the curve from Palmetto Street to Myrtle Avenue.
Too far away, though, to also see the RKO Bushwick along Madison Street. One needs to ride the Bway el between Gates and Halsey and look southwest to see that.
Perhaps because the Ridgewood is still a theater, and maybe still uses the old air conditioning system, unlike the Madison or the Parthenon? The Parthenon was also a much smaller building.
Haha, they call the once “Putnam Ave” a “small park” on their map:
http://www.freshtaco.com/location_ridgewood.html
The water tower was on the Madison until somewhat recently. Last I looked, and it was a while ago, the tower was gone, but the ladder that used to go to the top of it was still there….the ladder to no where….
Haha, the taco place doesn’t serve fried rice, only Spanish rice….but the menu is set up like your traditional Chinese restaurant!
http://www.freshtaco.com/menu_ridgewood.html
Bway, that’s good to know about the TACO place.
Haha, Lost, right to the right of the photo you took, at the corner of Cypress and Putnam…in the shadow of the Ridgewood Theater is the little taco/tex mex food place I always stop in when in Ridgewood…. It’s run by Chinese people (haha, and cooking Mexican food), but it’s really, really good!
Lost, I think that tower may have something to do with the air conditioning (it’s probably an old system). Not sure though. I don’t think it has anything to do with “flushing the toilets”, lol.
Anyway, as for tonino…. Ridgewood never ever became a burnt out area like Bushwick did. There’s nothing really to “recover” from, as it never fell like Bushwick did. The new brick accented sidewalks did keep Myrtle Ave looking decent of course though.
I think it did, ‘Tonino. Ridgewood never became a ghost town of shooting galleries, burned-out buildings, and empty lots squatted on by homeless.
Did the 1983 revitalization project have any lasting degree of success?
Shalom, ciao, and excelsior
You’re welcome, Lost Memory. It makes sense.
Woodbine Street between St. Nicholas and Myrtle Avenues, dead-on to the front of the RKO Madison Theater, also became a pedestrian sidewalk as a result of that 1983 renovation, part of the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project.
Lost Memory : photo taken a week ago : yes, that would make sense.
The short section of Putnam Avenue was replaced by the sidewalk in 1983, causing a change in the route of the Q58 bus.
Lost Memory, I LOVE your photo ! Full moon over Ridgewood Theater, Cypress Avenue, looking northwest, Golden Chopsticks, TACO sign, San Remo Pizzeria in near right foreground. It must have been early morning for the full moon to be high in the western sky like that.
Perhap’s the watertower is used for the airconditioning system. It is only a guess.
Lost Memory asked, “Do you think that the tower is still used?”
The toilets probably wouldn’t flush without the water it supplies.
Hahaha, looks familiar…Good ole Ridgewood Theater.
Putnam “Street” the caption says, LOL.
Check the Capitol, New London for progress on its renovations, or current lack thereof. This is a small, lovely theater, which truly deserves to be restored. I hope I get to see it.
Shalom, ciao, and excelsior
I purchased a twin horror dvd that includes ‘Attack of the Puppet People’ 1958 starring John Agar and ‘Village of the Giants’ 1965 starring Tommy Kirk. In the first movie people are reduced to puppet size and in the second movie the people grow to be 30 feet tall. Size doesn’t matter fella’s because both movies are bombs. haha
Ms. Newmar still looked pretty damned good, Peter, though I’m sure she has had more facelifts and tummy tucks than the original Frankenstein monster and all his successors combined. LOL! I’m glad you said the “To Wong Foo…” movie was 1995. That’s more like it, not ‘99. Kristina was 10, and Newmar was savvy enough to know the kid just didn’t have the dough for a signed pic. We were at the Hollywood Collectors Show, then held quarterly at the Beverly Garland Hotel in N. Hollywood. (I’ve posted the website for it elsewhere above last summer, as the folks who run it have switched venues: dear Ms. Garland would never install air-conditioning in her four ballrooms. Ha!)
Good for all of you, BklynJim ! How good looking was Ms. Newmar at that advanced age ? What convention was that ?
My son, daughter and I met Julie Newmar at a convention back in ‘99. She even gave my daughter a personally autographed pic at no charge.
Glad you like my humor, mikemovies. Lee Meriwether appeared as Losira in the Star Trek episode, “That Which Survives”, a sad-faced siren whose touch meant instant death, and who had a knack for turning sideways, becoming a black vertical line, and disappearing.
Funny lines in “Son Of Frankenstein” : as funny as the Dwight Frye character in “Bride Of Frankenstein” referring to a woman heart donor’s death as “a police case” at the urging of Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger).
Julie Newmar also starred as a robot with Robert Cummings in the 1964 TV sitcom “My Living Doll”, and as a horned Miss Devlin in the 1963 Twilight Zone episode “Of Late I Think Of Cliffordville”.
Last but not least, she appeared at the end of the 1995 comedy, “To Wong Foo : Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar” starring Patrick Swayze (not bad-looking as a woman) Wesley Snipes (ridiculous in drag) and last, but most emphatically not least, John Leguizamo (where did they find a guy with such great looking legs and ass ?) as drag “princess” Chi Chi Rodriguez.