Ridgewood Theatre
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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Yes, that’s what I meant about “Beerfest” playing at the Ridgewood Theater. Yes, Zum Stammtisch is an excellent restaurant !
There is also Von Westernhagen, two blocks to the northeast, at the southeast corner of Cooper Avenue and 71st Street. Both are in Glendale.
Got it. I’m not from the area so I’m not that familiar with the neighborhood borderlines. Closest I got was working one day at the Mini-Mart on Fresh Pond Rd around the corner from the bus depot in the early ‘80’s. I worked regularly for the Mini-Mart stores on 108th in Forest Hills and on Manhattan Ave in Greenpoint (the same owner) but I once had to deliver milk from Elmhurst Dairy to the Fresh Pond store in a van when there was a strike by the truck drivers. There was about 3 feet of snow on the ground, too.
Zum Stammtisch is a fantastic restaurant, by the way.
What, Zum Stammtisch is no longer open?
“Whew … thank God, it’s only syphilis !”
“Glued to the seat” … watch out for needles on theater seats with notes on them reading, “Congratulations ! You are now HIV positive !”
Cartoon I saw once, man getting up to leave a porno movie :
“Pardon me, this is where I came !”
“Beerfest” playing at the Ridgewood is probably the closest thing to a German restaurant Ridgewood now has.
I looked at the Fair Theatre listing on this website. The Fair Theatre plays adult movies. I am not going to that theatre. We could all catch a disease there fella’s. I am more interested in attending the Ridgewood Theatre due to it’s long history. Perhaps crank case would like to join us. I will check into the J & R Music store frankie. Thanx for the heads up.
I forgot to thank ‘brenograph" for his 8/23 post in my earlier reply.
And now … to express my interest in attending the Ridgewood-fest, including maybe dinner. But I’d be coming by car from Connecticut and I’ve got some needs which negate a day trip and concerns regarding staying over night. I still find it hard to believe Ridgewood, the neighborhood, bears any resemblance to what it was in the mid ‘50s.
…..also, to asssure others that my spirit and body signs onto this site using only one name.
Finally, LM’s tongue in cheek remark about ‘Plaster’ was lost on me. It did however remind me of something my Industrial Design instructor at Brooklyn Tech had us memorize: “Portland cement is the product obtained by calcining to incipient fusion intimate and properly proportioned mixtures of argillaceous and calcareous materials without the subsequent addition of anything except water and calcined or uncalcined gypsum.” And that is from memory.!!! Not a copy and paste job.
Shalom, ciao, and excelsior
Boys, you’re all pushin' me to the Ridgewood tonight ! I’m gonna buttonhole a manager and pass our apparently mutually agreeable idea under his nose. Am anxious to see the theater itself tonight. By the way boys, try J & R Music near City Hall for cheap DVDs of some of these flicks. Will report back on Monday ! (STOP IT, ‘Tonino !!!)
Count me in fella’s. I would be happy to attend a monster festival at the Ridgewood Theatre. Perhaps ‘Tonino would like to join us because he has nothing else to do. Sometimes I think the crank case’s are all the same person. I reckon you didn’t enjoy my trivia. I enjoyed the plaster story. Looking forward to the brick story. Another place to get old DVD’s fella’s is Netflix. You could rent or buy them.
Voluminous tangential threads don’t belong on this site because it clutters the users' mail box with dozens of unwanted posts in a day. The feature where users are advised when a post has been received in a theater of interest is great for its intended use but is meaningless in the presence of off-topic replies. This happens too frequently in this section.
CSI: NY, get a life. You appear to be a real movie and theater afficiondo, but your inflammatory posts, constant bitching, and dissertations on Plaster are a nuisance to most users.
The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) Theater in San Diego’s Balboa Park has the capability to screen film and DVD, though the former is preferred. Whoever visits the Ridgewood next, that’s a great question to ask.
Be highly suspect of Italian films from the late ‘50s/early '60s, mikemovies. To call many of them cheesy or cheap-o stinkers might very well be taken as a compliment. “Hercules Unchained” was filmed in Dialyscope, whatever that is. (First cousin to dialysis? Hope not!) “War Between the Planets” is most likely far below standards set by “La Dolce Vita” and “Cinema Paradiso,” or even Eastwood’s spaghetti westerns.
I checked the link above: “RM” is going for $9.98 (‘way overpriced – obtainable elsewhere for far less) and “KS” is $5.99. “Horrors of the Black Museum” is down to $8.99 with anamorphic 16:9 WS.
“Robot Monster” ($4.99) and “Killer Shrews” (between $7.99-$9.99, depending on which company) are easily available on DVD. The shrews were bulemic dogs whose teeth were elongated with some kind of material. Both are funny in a pathetic sort of way.
CSI:NY/Who’s Yo' Daddy?/LM had a decent germ of an idea, and frankie was quick to pick up on it. Why not approach the current Ridgewood owners/managers with a request to schedule some of these lost treasures (for want of a better phrase) for special midnight screenings? All that’s needed to convince ‘em is the prospect of their making some extra $$$ for virtually little outlay.
www.deepdiscountdvd.com
That’s correct, CSI & mikemovies. Oh, and brenograph, how many times have YOU visited the Ridgewood ? How many informative comments have YOU contributed to this noble site ? Go away ! We don’t want you here ! Anyway, fellas, do patrons of the Ridgewood talk, or do they actually watch the movie ? Since brenograph is so nasty, I’m more determined than ever to visit the Ridgewood, and report to you guys. Hey CSI, maybe when I go, I’ll seek out the manager and make the “festival” suggestion.
I hope the movie War Between the Planets is in english. Perhaps it has subtitles. The Killer Shrews is a little silly but watchable. The people are on a tiny island which has it’s own electric utility company. I told yo fella’s it was silly. haha
To Users of the Ridgewood Theater Page:
The last hundred or so posts to this page reveal a disturbing fact: not only is mention of the Ridgewood Theater mostly absent from them, but also, mean-spirited personal attacks seem to be on the increase.
SOME OF YOU FAIL TO REALIZE THAT PEOPLE OF LIKE INTEREST FROM MANY COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD ACCESS THIS SITE.
Your use of it as a personal blogging or chat room site in spite of being asked not to use it as such only displays a blatant disregard of the many of us who are genuinely interested in the history of this theater.
Some of you are even using other theater pages on this site to foster the same lowbrow antics.
If you have an issue with another member of this site, take it to them personally via email: the rest of us aren’t interested in your vendettas.
We can only hope that time will usher you swiftly along and hurtle you in the not to distant future across that fine line that delineates immaturity from maturity.
It is at once disturbing to have to write a post such as this-
Even more so, to have to read a post such as this.
But, most disturbing of all, and with dread anticipation, will be the moronic replies all will be subjected to because of a post such as this.
Does this penetrate your conciousness even a wee bit?
Ed, I know Mantan is politically incorrect, but he never fails to crack me up: especially in that classic vaudeville routine where he & his friend anticipate what the other one’s going to say —– before they SAY it ! Sorry Jim, I guess “minutiae was a BIT pretentious. Yes PK, I think it was "From Hell It Came”…subtitled “The Life of Warren.” Anyway, wouldn’t it be fun if the Ridgewood did an all-day showing of these old horror movies ? Hope all you guys bought “Killer Shrews” on DVD !
Thanx PKoch. I went to the discount dvd link posted by BrooklynJim. For $10.79 you get two movies. Creation Of The Humanoids and War Between the Planets. Have any of you fella’s seen War Between the Planets? Would this be a good purchase?
Link to IMDb page for “Creation Of The Humanoids” :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055872/
It is EXTREMELY worthwhile to view. It was in theaters before I could see it there. I saw it on WOR Channel 9, fall 1968. It has a surprise ending that gets the viewer unexpectedly involved.
I found another odd movie on internet I never seen before. The title is ‘The Creation of the Humanoids’. The main actors are Don Megowan & Erica Elliott. Was this ever in a theatre? Would this be a good movie to watch?
EdSolero wrote :
“Anyone remember that horrible old flick – shown on Channel 11, I think, in only the grainiest prints – that had to do with that walking tree that had a knife stuck in its heart?!?”
I remember it, but am not sure about the title. “From Hell It Came”, perhaps ?
It didn’t come from Oz after throwing its apples at Dorothy and The Scarecrow.
mikemovies, I only knew the answers to 1 and 2, and was confused, because the questions were numbered 1, 2, 4 and 5, and the answers, 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Could you get Robot Monster on dvd? If your message get erased write it again. How come you fella’s didn’t answer the trivia? Too difficult?
Yogurt… ha! Like all those 104 year old Russians in the old Dannon ads, PKoch? God, this discussion is bringing back such memories of “Robot Monster”… Didn’t this movie also use that cheapo stock footage of lizards with glued on dorsal fins standing in as fighting dinosaurs that was used in so many low budget ‘50’s flicks. And how about those shots of Ro-man’s boss communicating over that old Philco TV set – the guy playing him under the gorilla suit would keep on “acting” and gesturing with his hand long after the line he was supposed to be saying was delivered! A gem. And I agree, BklynJim, li'l Johnny was an annoying brat.
Anyone remember that horrible old flick – shown on Channel 11, I think, in only the grainiest prints – that had to do with that walking tree that had a knife stuck in its heart?!?
1-What actor played ‘Gort’ in the 1951 movie THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL ?
2-What actor was in Them! and Miracle on 34th street?
4-Who was the lead actor in When Worlds Collide?
5-Which actor was Dr. Matt Hastings in Tarantula?
Answers
1-Lock Martin
2-Edmund Gwenn
3-Richard Derr
4-John Agar
Or was it because they ate yogurt ?
I’ve always found it hysterical how Ro-Man’s calcinator death ray eliminated all human life on earth except for this family of six. Was it because they flossed? If I’d have been Director Tucker, l'il Johnny would’ve bitten the dust permanently.