Ridgewood Theatre

PKoch ..“What would theaters be without movies ?”, you asked. What they were in their original lives of course, Burlesque Houses. Or vaudeville or stage plays.

And as long as I’m here, let me add my support to BklynJim’s suggestion of a “Research” site.

and vote “A”. (Subject to the clarification offered by EdSolero re a single theater in contrast to opening a new research page for each theter inquiry, which is bizarre, and I’m sure not what the writer had in mind.)

And finally, in a similar vein, start another page for theater related kibbitsing. Maybe we could call it ‘Goldbrick’. (I still have a dial up connection and the Ridgewood takes forever to open.)

Thanks a bunch lostmemory. I will get started right away on this theatre.

Oh, Lost… I snuck away hours ago! Slipped out the side entrance at the lunch bell and have been eating penny candies at the soda counter ever since.That egg cream sure was good!

Oh no I didn’t mean lostmemory was a crank. I apologize for the misunderstanding. I would like to add a theatre if anyone has an extra theatre that they could spare. It is becoming difficult to locate a theatre that isn’t already listed.

That is such a great idea. it would avoid all the clutter that is in a theater like the Ridgewood, unrelated to the Ridgewood, and these kind of topics come up in many many theaters because people are starving for a place like that to discuss random mtheater information, but there’s no place to discuss it unless we use a theater. WHat’s happened in the Ridgewood section is that people use it because they know others check this theater often as it’s a popular theater to begin with, as most of the main members of the site congregate here too.

Not that this discussion should continue to clutter this theater’s page, but since the damage is already done, let’s toss caution to the wind… Are you suggesting that someone add a single new “research” theater in order to create a single space here where folks can ask membership to help, say, identify a mystery theater? Or do you propose folks add a new “research” theater for each new mystery they wish to have solved? The latter would result in a lot of clutter with folks posting “new” mystery theaters before thoroughly searching the existing database and would result in a lot of “clean up” work for Bryan. But the former sounds like a very good stop-gap measure until a more ideal solution could be provided.

So a big “A” to our resident crank for a “great idea” and a nice shiny star as well, for good measure.

I vote ‘A’ and I had the same idea, but due to a computor failure over the past 5 days…..you beat me to it! lol

Here’s the link for that news item. It took a while to find it.
She’s right.

http://cinematreasures.org/news/14430_0_1_160_C/

PK, tried to access the “SubTalk” section the other day, as you recently suggested, but it only seems to go back 10 pages' worth. Can you recall the exact subject title or provide a way to delve back further? Appreciate it!

BTW, in your honor last night, I watched the ubiquitous Whit Bissell AND John Agar in “Creature From the Black Lagoon” (‘54) and “Attack of the Puppet People” ('58), respectively. I ask you, good sir: What would all CT’s architectural triumphs and losers, all these grand palaces and “itch” dives, all these proverbial “Orchids and Onions” be without all the wonderful, scary, funny, sad, colorful, dark, amazing films to be viewed in? I suspect that they’d be extremely hollow and haunted…

Yes, BklynJim, “Unifing The Subways” is an excellent book. It contains a few errors of photo captioning and identification, but, then again, nothing and no one is perfect.

I may have posted at length about the theater I had in mind on “SubTalk” of www.nycsubway.org, or perhaps sent a private e-mail to Bway, who may be of further help.

Lab coat. Goggles. Mouse. Feel like Clint Eastwood in “Revenge of the Creature.”

Info sounds great, Ed, and is greatly appreciated! Will utilize it once I’m back in NY or if I befriend some lady PC guru here in La La Land. Will let you know if and when it flies…:)

No need to be more specific, PKoch, as it was I who was somewhat vague when I wrote that I was “looking for the Boro Hall Theatre.” I meant as a CT page. The Cinart, also on Court St., is listed without a number. Boro Hall was 102 Court. It is a bit unclear to me if this was, in fact, a later version of the old BH.

BTW, the book you cited by Frederick Kramer is excellent, as are all his others. I shipped my copy back to NY earlier this year. I’ll try to have a friend scan and post a number of pix from it and other sources in the fall or early winter. I wish I knew how to freeze-frame a DVD or VHS shot to capture it for CT readers. Aaarrggghhh! The BH marquee, although visible for only a second or three, is crystal-clear in its clarity and composition. (The color scenes with the Ridgewood and RKO Madison Theaters are somewhat grainy and, as they were filmed late in the day, not quite as well-lit as the B&W scenes of the Farragut and BH Theaters, but certainly no less enjoyable and equally well-documented for historians, current film/theater aficianados, and future generations of movie-goers.)

For what it’s worth, I vote with KenRoe, Bway and Lost Memory for some kind of “Research” or “Inquiry” CT page. It makes a ton of sense, rather than having us inquiring mind-types continually chasing leads on busy and/or popular pages such as the Ridgewood’s.

Until then, however, I’ll add here that I’m presently looking for the Boro Hall Theatre, formerly located at 102 Court St. in downtown Brooklyn. I’m not certain that the Cinart, which is CT listed, was actually a later incarnation of the Boro Hall, mentioned in my 7/18 post. Ayudu, anyone?