MarkieS: “Yes, there is an adult "theater” in the back with plenty of seats, plus a couple of dozen booths behind the screen. I was just there two days ago."
Ah, good. Not just a figleaf for a videostore type of operation! Is it populated? If so, exclusively male or might MF couples wander in from other parts of the theater?
He just wanted to emulate the Moses who parted the Red Sea, to part all that mess in the way of New Jersey automobiles seeking the promise of Long Island.
McGinty: “During my visits to the Fair, I have never seen a single person sitting in the main screen to view the Bollywood fare, so I don’t think complaints will be a problem.”
Pity. I had hoped there might be a few MF couples curious about what’s going on in other parts of the theater.
Are Indian MF couples actually attending Bollywood shows now? If there is a price differential, are there separate entrances to low-price and high-price sections? No movement allowed between them? (Or perhaps only from high-priced to low-priced?)
Are Indian couples “curious” about the “forbidden” (high-priced) areas?
Maybe I need to go and find out for myself. Or ask McGinty or MarkieS or Alto or somebody, some “old hand” [sic] to escort me there and “show me”.
I recalled this theater during a discussion of another theater which was in the midst of a change from “ethnic” movies to “XXX” movies (or vice versa, or worse vice):
Reminds me of an ambiguous message on a marquee on a theater in what used to be a Greek neighborhood, just east of the GW bridge or maybe up near 181st street (not the theater at 181st & Broadway). It had begun to show porn movies, but still catered to remnants of the ethnic community, so the sign said:
“Only on Sundays, Greek movies”
Knowing the way different populations might interpret “Greek”, I imagined disparate people lining up at the box office, eyeing each other suspiciously. A wholesome, conservative family group alongside a furtive guy in a raincoat, each wondering what the other was doing there.
Maybe the Fair will show Indian porn. Men and women kissing each other openly, on the mouth?
posted by faberfranz on Mar 31, 2007 at 3:48pm
I subsequently posted a link to photo (a view from above as it is now):
Regarding my earlier reference (March 31) to “only on Sunday: Greek movies”: happened to pass by that area and think I spotted that long-lost theater. Anybody know its name and history (it’s a low-scale women’s clothing store now).
Visible if one knows what to look for on Live Search:
2nd building south of SW corner, Wadsworth Avenue and 181st
street. One bus parallel to it, the other almost aimed at
its front entrance.
Identifiable by a frieze of Tragedy & Comedy masques near
top, a mask at each side of wall beneath, and what appear
to be supports for now-missing marquee.
posted by faberfranz on Apr 14, 2007 at 12:58pm
And somebody responded by sending me here, for exterior photos you’ve probably already seen:
faberfranz….There was a Heights Theater located at 150 Wadsworth Avenue (near West 181st St.) That might be the building that you saw. The Heights Theater is listed on Cinema Treasures here.
posted by Lost Memory on Apr 14, 2007 at 4:12pm
Yeah, that’s it! Just the way it looks today. Or three days ago, anyway.
Regarding my earlier reference (March 31) to “only on Sunday: Greek movies”: happened to pass by that area and think I spotted that long-lost theater. Anybody know its name and history (it’s a low-scale women’s clothing store now).
Visible if one knows what to look for on Live Search:
2nd building south of SW corner, Wadsworth Avenue and 181st
street. One bus parallel to it, the other almost aimed at
its front entrance.
Identifiable by a frieze of Tragedy & Comedy masques near
top, a mask at each side of wall beneath, and what appear
to be supports for now-missing marquee.
“…I hall have to visit again to determine exactly what the Fairâ€\s status is regarding its adult XXX offerings.” posted by Alto on Apr 1, 2007 at 10:18pm
Nah. XXX stores with their teeny tiny booths just don’t do it for me. I like the wider exposures of full-sized theaters, or at least a “projection room”.
Reminds me of an ambiguous message on a marquee on a theater in what used to be a Greek neighborhood, just east of the GW bridge or maybe up near 181st street (not the theater at 181st & Broadway). It had begun to show porn movies, but still catered to remnants of the ethnic community, so the sign said:
“Only on Sundays, Greek movies”
Knowing the way different populations might interpret “Greek”, I imagined disparate people lining up at the box office, eyeing each other suspiciously. A wholesome, conservative family group alongside a furtive guy in a raincoat, each wondering what the other was doing there.
Maybe the Fair will show Indian porn. Men and women kissing each other openly, on the mouth?
My knowledge of Brooklyn is very limited and rudimentary. Roughly speaking, where is this theater located? And how might one reach it via public transportation from Manhattan? (email replies welcome, via my profile)
Early in this thread, someone said #7 express doesn’t run on weekends. But this needs to be updated: these days, neither express NOR the local runs on weekends. Alternative routes = ??
I’d appreciate hearing (e.g. via email) from fairytail and others familiar with current operations for updates on social milieu, popular days and hours, that sort of thing. Do women (“non-working” women) or couples visit?
My ISP is “humanoid encountered by Gulliver in his travels” (human-sized, neither Lilliputian nor Brobdingnagian).
$7.25 in 1977 ?!? Whew! Seems to me there was a (small) porn theater on 8th avenue with an admission of just $2.00 or so, just a few years later. Maybe more? Maybe $4.00? (East side of 8th Ave.; c. 45th st, + or – a block?)
MarkieS: “Yes, there is an adult "theater” in the back with plenty of seats, plus a couple of dozen booths behind the screen. I was just there two days ago."
Ah, good. Not just a figleaf for a videostore type of operation! Is it populated? If so, exclusively male or might MF couples wander in from other parts of the theater?
My question is getting separated from the item that prompted the question!
They show adult films in the back; that’s also where the “buddy” booths are.
posted by MarkieS on Mar 20, 2009 at 4:28pm
In other words, there is an actual adult-film “theater” in the back, meaning at least 5 or 6 seats and a shared screen?
posted by faberfranz on Mar 20, 2009 at 9:33pm
In other words, there is an actual adult-film “theater” in the back, meaning at least 5 or 6 seats and a shared screen?
He just wanted to emulate the Moses who parted the Red Sea, to part all that mess in the way of New Jersey automobiles seeking the promise of Long Island.
Yeah. Group “Cinema Treasures' trip to Kings Highway might be fun.
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Yeah, offline is fine with me! Just click on my name, I guess.
It sounds to me like a woman sends off alarm bells to the security. Either that or there’s a big difference between gay & straight sections.
I doubt it. I suspect stuff would really have hit the fan if a MF couple ventured into the gay section.
Personally, I find an all-male gay porn cinema not so interesting as all that, audience participation or no. A woman adds a lot, for my tastes.
What if she were to impersonate a trannie? a little facial-stubble make-up, etc.? Might get them both into the gay section, eh?
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That’s very discouraging to hear. An actual real live MF couple there and nobody can do ANYTHING?
Bummer!
Is security that strict when only men are there?
McGinty: “During my visits to the Fair, I have never seen a single person sitting in the main screen to view the Bollywood fare, so I don’t think complaints will be a problem.”
Pity. I had hoped there might be a few MF couples curious about what’s going on in other parts of the theater.
Maybe just a preview of Coming Attractions?
Show “me” around? Or just show me the theater?
Surely male genitalia are exhibited there.
Are Indian MF couples actually attending Bollywood shows now? If there is a price differential, are there separate entrances to low-price and high-price sections? No movement allowed between them? (Or perhaps only from high-priced to low-priced?)
Are Indian couples “curious” about the “forbidden” (high-priced) areas?
Maybe I need to go and find out for myself. Or ask McGinty or MarkieS or Alto or somebody, some “old hand” [sic] to escort me there and “show me”.
Luis—
I recalled this theater during a discussion of another theater which was in the midst of a change from “ethnic” movies to “XXX” movies (or vice versa, or worse vice):
/theaters/4030/
Reminds me of an ambiguous message on a marquee on a theater in what used to be a Greek neighborhood, just east of the GW bridge or maybe up near 181st street (not the theater at 181st & Broadway). It had begun to show porn movies, but still catered to remnants of the ethnic community, so the sign said:
“Only on Sundays, Greek movies”
Knowing the way different populations might interpret “Greek”, I imagined disparate people lining up at the box office, eyeing each other suspiciously. A wholesome, conservative family group alongside a furtive guy in a raincoat, each wondering what the other was doing there.
Maybe the Fair will show Indian porn. Men and women kissing each other openly, on the mouth?
posted by faberfranz on Mar 31, 2007 at 3:48pm
I subsequently posted a link to photo (a view from above as it is now):
/theaters/4030/
Regarding my earlier reference (March 31) to “only on Sunday: Greek movies”: happened to pass by that area and think I spotted that long-lost theater. Anybody know its name and history (it’s a low-scale women’s clothing store now).
Visible if one knows what to look for on Live Search:
2nd building south of SW corner, Wadsworth Avenue and 181st
street. One bus parallel to it, the other almost aimed at
its front entrance.
View link
Identifiable by a frieze of Tragedy & Comedy masques near
top, a mask at each side of wall beneath, and what appear
to be supports for now-missing marquee.
posted by faberfranz on Apr 14, 2007 at 12:58pm
And somebody responded by sending me here, for exterior photos you’ve probably already seen:
faberfranz….There was a Heights Theater located at 150 Wadsworth Avenue (near West 181st St.) That might be the building that you saw. The Heights Theater is listed on Cinema Treasures here.
posted by Lost Memory on Apr 14, 2007 at 4:12pm
Yeah, that’s it! Just the way it looks today. Or three days ago, anyway.
From Lost Memory’s link (/theaters/11135/),
posted by KenRoe on Jul 18, 2006 at 12:39pm:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/192797148/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/192797605/
posted by faberfranz on Apr 14, 2007 at 7:22pm
But I guess you want photos of how it was ‘way back THEN, when it was still a movie theater…
Yeah, that’s it! Just the way it looks today. Or three days ago, anyway.
From Lost Memory’s link (/theaters/11135/),
posted by KenRoe on Jul 18, 2006 at 12:39pm:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/192797148/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/192797605/
Regarding my earlier reference (March 31) to “only on Sunday: Greek movies”: happened to pass by that area and think I spotted that long-lost theater. Anybody know its name and history (it’s a low-scale women’s clothing store now).
Visible if one knows what to look for on Live Search:
2nd building south of SW corner, Wadsworth Avenue and 181st
street. One bus parallel to it, the other almost aimed at
its front entrance.
View link
Identifiable by a frieze of Tragedy & Comedy masques near
top, a mask at each side of wall beneath, and what appear
to be supports for now-missing marquee.
Alto: “… I did see one Indian couple (male-female) snuggling up and enjoying the show…”
Sounds good!
Oh.
Maybe you mean the Bollywood show.
Ticket booklets: a gamble? What if I end up having to watch 8 or 9 Bollywood shows? I guess I could watch MF Indian couples snuggling up, but…
“…I hall have to visit again to determine exactly what the Fairâ€\s status is regarding its adult XXX offerings.” posted by Alto on Apr 1, 2007 at 10:18pm
Do! and let us know!
Nah. XXX stores with their teeny tiny booths just don’t do it for me. I like the wider exposures of full-sized theaters, or at least a “projection room”.
Too late for expeditions to the Fair “as it was”? Last chance for expeditions to Cinema Kings Highway?
Tour guides?
Old Indian farts are spicy, I hear.
Reminds me of an ambiguous message on a marquee on a theater in what used to be a Greek neighborhood, just east of the GW bridge or maybe up near 181st street (not the theater at 181st & Broadway). It had begun to show porn movies, but still catered to remnants of the ethnic community, so the sign said:
“Only on Sundays, Greek movies”
Knowing the way different populations might interpret “Greek”, I imagined disparate people lining up at the box office, eyeing each other suspiciously. A wholesome, conservative family group alongside a furtive guy in a raincoat, each wondering what the other was doing there.
Maybe the Fair will show Indian porn. Men and women kissing each other openly, on the mouth?
What time of day (or night) did you visit?
My knowledge of Brooklyn is very limited and rudimentary. Roughly speaking, where is this theater located? And how might one reach it via public transportation from Manhattan? (email replies welcome, via my profile)
Early in this thread, someone said #7 express doesn’t run on weekends. But this needs to be updated: these days, neither express NOR the local runs on weekends. Alternative routes = ??
I’d appreciate hearing (e.g. via email) from fairytail and others familiar with current operations for updates on social milieu, popular days and hours, that sort of thing. Do women (“non-working” women) or couples visit?
My ISP is “humanoid encountered by Gulliver in his travels” (human-sized, neither Lilliputian nor Brobdingnagian).
$7.25 in 1977 ?!? Whew! Seems to me there was a (small) porn theater on 8th avenue with an admission of just $2.00 or so, just a few years later. Maybe more? Maybe $4.00? (East side of 8th Ave.; c. 45th st, + or – a block?)