Ridgewood Theatre
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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where is that new theatre on cooper???
do you think it will hurt ridgewood ???
wally1975
the madison coffee shop…is it still open..??
The Fresh Pond Diner lasted to about two years ago, when it was demolished, along with the garden center on the corner to build the Commerce Bank which is there now.
The Continuing History of Ridgewood in Multiple Volumes
Sure wish I had a dollar for every film I saw at the Ridgewood between 1968-1977. Even though I’m 3000 miles away on “the left coast,” I’ll still throw what support I can to convert the theater to an avant-garde foreign film showcase. (My movie-critic son, sadly deceased last year at age 23 from cancer) loved foreign films and re-ignited my passion for the really good ones.)
Also missed the Fresh Pond Diner on my trip last March. when did that disappear???
Thanks, KenRoe ! That latter thought had not occurred to me.
There was a Viennese Garden Theatre (an air-dome?) operating in 1923 in Brooklyn. But I doubt an air-dome would have installed a Wurlitzer theatre organ.
A possible answer could be that the proposed name of the theatre was going to be Weinwolf Theater and it actually opened with another name.
Warren to the rescue ?
The Werewolf theater ?
I always smiled to myself whenever I passed by Wolfman’s delicatessen
on Cross Bay Boulevard just south of the Belt Parkway, in Howard Beach, on the way to The Big Bow Wow, to put on the feed bag and chow down.
Then we have a bigger search. I think Bay Ridge was also once a German neighborhood of Brooklyn.
As opposed to what ? A live theater ? The name literally means “Vienna wolf”, so I would look in German neighborhoods of Brooklyn like Bushwick and Ridgewood.
The Atlas seems to be becoming the “HIV” or, as it would have been called, in a more innocent and less desperate time than is today, the “hot potato” that no one wants to touch.
Yes, Cinema Treasures has them all, from “Westminster Abbey stunt doubles” like the Valencia, on through all the concrete bunkers at the ends of shopping malls, to the packing-crates-by-the-parking-meters storefront porno houses. Perhaps the Atlas Park 8 Multiplex will get on here, for no other reason, than as the “enemy” that helped to shut down the Ridgewood.
Re: Posting the Atlas as a theater on CT… Seems to me that with over 14,000 theaters listed, CT has become a repository for just about any movie theater a member cares to post. There are quite a number of squalid on-the-cheap white-box multiplexes already listed on the site (Cinema City 5 in Fresh Meadows, Queens is a prime example). There are also any number of recently built first-class multiplex cinemas listed here that rise above the budget-discount variety that Cinema City exemplified. I assume that Atlas will get its due here on CT sooner or later. But it sure won’t be my doing.
The Ridgewood has been running a shortened schedule in the winter for awhile although it used to have it’s first show at like 330 with the last one being 830, now they open later with the last show around 9-930.
Robert, the Ridgewood always had matinees daily all the time….until this year when they started this ridiculous evening only schedule.
Warren, there are storefront porn theaters listed on this site as “cinematreasures”, as well as all kinds of multiplexes, from the plainest to the delux like the Holtsville Island 16. I don’t see a reason why it shouldn’t be listed. I would list it, but I know little about it, other than what I have read here. It may be best left for someone who has attended a movie there.
Understood, Warren. Thanks.
Lost Memory, I will pass on listing the Atlas, as I know next to nothing about it.
Yes, Bway, 666 : very smart. Glad you’re getting at least some e-mails.
Usually once school closes the Ridgewood has matinees daily.
The Omen opens today, 666, so they are very smart to do this, perhaps even stagering the times. I hope they do get smart and try and compete. They can really get a niche as a “neighborhood theater” with personal touch, but they have do do something about the condition, and attitude.
And the test was successful…I am getting the update emails (but unfortunately only for theaters I responded to within the last 5 days or so). I don’t know what happened to make me and some other people loose all contact with the email updates, but like I said, at least it is working for theaters I recomment in.
Warren, I find that surprising. One would think there would be evening screenings for adults on Friday, Saturday & Sunday, school or not.
BTW, has anyone started a page yet for the Atlas Park multiplex ?
I just searched for it as “Atlas 8”, and drew a blank.
I just called the Ridgewood Theater, at (718) 821-5993, the number given for it at the top of this page, located “between Cypress and Madison Avenues, in Ridgewood, Queens”, according to the recorded message I just heard. It is currently showing “The Omen” and “X-Men 3”, each on two screens, and “Over The Hedge” on its fifth screen.
It is apparently still open, and perhaps has modified its program (two blockbuster films, each on two screens) to compete with the Atlas 8 Multiplex at 80th Street and Cooper Avenue in Glendale.
This is the Emergency Email Notification System.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL. REPEAT : THIS IS NOT A DRILL !
Yes. It worked. Apparently any theater I made a message in in the last week, I get the update emails. Anything before that, it doesn’t work anymore.
Amazingly after all this time, and all this conversation under this theater, no one has been able to come up with interior historic photos of the Ridgewood yet. Warren’s post makes me want to see them even more! I’d even settle for current photos.
Thanks for all this interesting info, Warren. I wonder if the Ridgewood’s cooling system still draws water from a subterranean spring, rather than NYC water supply.
I hope the Ridgewood Theater remains open. I was in Ridgewood this morning, but did not pass by the theater. Any thoughts ? News ?
I still think the Ridgewoods audience is totally different from Atlas and for sure the Midway. With most theatres in Brooklyn gone the Ridgewood must draw a lot of that audience. I also think UA could have kept Crossbay 2 had they not ran it down so that it looked like the Harem on 42nd St.
Now, what was the relation between William Fox, and Sonny Fox, host of the Sunday morning kids' show “Wonderama” in the early 1960’s ? And was their name originally “Fuchs”, as in Leo Fuchs, mainstay of the Yiddish Theater ?