I passed by the Ridgewood Theatre about 10:40 a.m. this morning, Friday April 16 2010.
Call (917) 578 7701 is back up on the marquee.
The gate was down, closing off the outer lobby. No posters in the windows of the box office. The doors to the inner lobby were closed.
Between the gate and the doors to the inner lobby, in the outer lobby, was a movie projector, and a freezer display case, white enamel with chrome trim, and a round quarter-cylinder transparent front cover. Nothing was inside on the shelves.
Up against the doors to the inner lobby were tables covered with a white tablecloth, extending about half the width of the inner lobby doors.
There was a poster for the 1976 film “Rocky” on the middle inner lobby door.
I think it would be a mistake for the Ridgewood Theatre to be made into condominiums. Ridgewood already has plenty of housing, but there is no movie theater within a four-mile radius of the Ridgewood Theatre except for the relatively hard to reach Atlas Park Cinemas in Glendale.
If the former Bushwick High School Annex on the southern corner of Cornelia Street and Cypress Avenue, on my old home block, is made into luxury condos, it will only underscore my inability to move back into my old neighborhood of Ridgewood.
Such luxury condos will also, by contrast, make my old home block of Cornelia Street look even shabbier and shittier than it already does.
Good work, Mike. I don’t have any new ideas at the moment, and, as I no longer reside in Ridgewood, even though I visit there every month, I am not sure how much weight any ideas I might have would carry, and have any effect.
I walked by the Ridgewood Theatre at 10:30 this morning (March 26 2010) and saw no change since my last visit on March 1 2010, except for Call 917-578-7701 being back up on the marquee, one door to the inner lobby being open, and the 1990 Rolling Stones poster now gone from the box office window.
The ground floor of the former Ridgewood Times / Bushwick High School Annex building on my old home block at the southern corner of Cypress Avenue and Cornelia Street now looks like it’s become a RAC (Rent A Center). When I was about 3 years of age in 1958 it was a mattress and bedding store. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
I have difficulty imagining the Ridgewood Theatre being made into sixty condos, although something similar is now advertised for the former Ridgewood Times / Bushwick High School Annex building on my old home block at the southern corner of Cypress Avenue and Cornelia Street.
Yes. She mentions Murken’s ice cream parlor on Myrtle just east of Forest as well as Koletty’s, and Putnam continuing past Cypress to Myrtle instead of being a pedestrian mall as it was before 1983.
She knew and remembered enough to zoom in on the words ‘MADISON THEATRE’ on the western wall of the building.
She’s posted about ten other Ridgewood videos in You Tube and calls herself “rgdwd327”, implying she remembers the 11227 and 11237 zip[ codes.
Yes, Chris, the lady who posted these Ridgewood tour videos is older than Monica but younger than me. She remembers the Fish N Chips at Myrtle and Palmetto 1979-81 where Koletty’s ice cream parlor used to be and says she was a “kid” then. I was age 24-26 then.
Yes, Panzer, I agree.
It’s both a Rod Serling-esque irony and a Faustian deal with the devil :
“You may have historic interior photos of the Ridgewood Theatre, but you can only get them from Warren G. Harris !”
Also reminds me of “Bring me the broomstick of the Wicked Witch Of The West !”
Historic photos of the interior of the Madison were found and posted years ago. Why not for the Ridgewood ?
It almost makes we want to contact Warren, but I’m not that masochistic.
Nor do I, Chris.
Thanks, John D and Mike.
I passed by the Ridgewood Theatre about 10:40 a.m. this morning, Friday April 16 2010.
Call (917) 578 7701 is back up on the marquee.
The gate was down, closing off the outer lobby. No posters in the windows of the box office. The doors to the inner lobby were closed.
Between the gate and the doors to the inner lobby, in the outer lobby, was a movie projector, and a freezer display case, white enamel with chrome trim, and a round quarter-cylinder transparent front cover. Nothing was inside on the shelves.
Up against the doors to the inner lobby were tables covered with a white tablecloth, extending about half the width of the inner lobby doors.
There was a poster for the 1976 film “Rocky” on the middle inner lobby door.
Thanks, Lost Memory, Tinseltoes and Bway !
Thanks, John, Dramatrauma, Michael and Chris. I’ll go check it out.
Thanks, Tinseltoes.
I think it would be a mistake for the Ridgewood Theatre to be made into condominiums. Ridgewood already has plenty of housing, but there is no movie theater within a four-mile radius of the Ridgewood Theatre except for the relatively hard to reach Atlas Park Cinemas in Glendale.
If the former Bushwick High School Annex on the southern corner of Cornelia Street and Cypress Avenue, on my old home block, is made into luxury condos, it will only underscore my inability to move back into my old neighborhood of Ridgewood.
Such luxury condos will also, by contrast, make my old home block of Cornelia Street look even shabbier and shittier than it already does.
Good work, Mike. I don’t have any new ideas at the moment, and, as I no longer reside in Ridgewood, even though I visit there every month, I am not sure how much weight any ideas I might have would carry, and have any effect.
I walked by the Ridgewood Theatre at 10:30 this morning (March 26 2010) and saw no change since my last visit on March 1 2010, except for Call 917-578-7701 being back up on the marquee, one door to the inner lobby being open, and the 1990 Rolling Stones poster now gone from the box office window.
The ground floor of the former Ridgewood Times / Bushwick High School Annex building on my old home block at the southern corner of Cypress Avenue and Cornelia Street now looks like it’s become a RAC (Rent A Center). When I was about 3 years of age in 1958 it was a mattress and bedding store. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Thanks for the updates, gentleman.
I have difficulty imagining the Ridgewood Theatre being made into sixty condos, although something similar is now advertised for the former Ridgewood Times / Bushwick High School Annex building on my old home block at the southern corner of Cypress Avenue and Cornelia Street.
Thanks for letting me know, Mike. I would like to join.
I’ll be taking my monthly walk past the Ridgewood Theatre the morning of this coming Friday March 19th, and will report here about it as usual.
Thanks, John.
Small world, P65 !
Panzer65, when did you see “The Sound of Music” at the Ridgewood ?
I saw it there with my mom in either late 1967 or early 1968.
Thanks for the input, John.
Thanks for the link, CWalczak, and thanks for getting us back on topic here.
Yes.
Hi, Panzer65, join the fun ! Good reading you again.
I’ve been in Murken’s many times, and remember exactly where it was.
Correct !
Yes. She mentions Murken’s ice cream parlor on Myrtle just east of Forest as well as Koletty’s, and Putnam continuing past Cypress to Myrtle instead of being a pedestrian mall as it was before 1983.
She knew and remembered enough to zoom in on the words ‘MADISON THEATRE’ on the western wall of the building.
She’s posted about ten other Ridgewood videos in You Tube and calls herself “rgdwd327”, implying she remembers the 11227 and 11237 zip[ codes.
Yes, Chris, the lady who posted these Ridgewood tour videos is older than Monica but younger than me. She remembers the Fish N Chips at Myrtle and Palmetto 1979-81 where Koletty’s ice cream parlor used to be and says she was a “kid” then. I was age 24-26 then.
Thanks for letting me know, Chris.
Thanks, Mike.
Who’s talking on the video ? Monica Harbison ?
Thanks, Chris !