That was JHS 82. Later became the auditorium for the school. Around the side was a deli which made the only great bologna sandwich in the world. I don’t know how they did it, but they did. It was a nice theater, a cut above the smaller theaters off the Concourse (except for the Loews 167th St. which was a bit grander. It played double features in the 50s.
You’re all crazy. It was located between 8th Ave. & Broadway, on the south side of the street, closer to B'way. I can take you to the site today if you wish.
My dad worked at DuArt and he’d take me to work on a given Saturday and park me at the 55th St. Playhouse. I remember they had marathons of UPA cartoons and the first Chaplin’s I’d ever seen. This must have been when he reissued compilations of his early shorts in the early 50s. I just remember being disappointed at first because I thought they were going to be Charlie Chase films, an artist I became very familiar with because parts of his films were used as filler in Howdy Doody. I sat through the marathons twice. I have seen the Chaplin’s many times since then but the UPA cartoons are never revived, perhaps because of the crappy Mr. Magoo cartoons that were made for TV.
Should be at the NW corner of West Tremont Ave. and Jerome Ave.
The map is wrong. It was at the SE corner of University and Tremont.
That was JHS 82. Later became the auditorium for the school. Around the side was a deli which made the only great bologna sandwich in the world. I don’t know how they did it, but they did. It was a nice theater, a cut above the smaller theaters off the Concourse (except for the Loews 167th St. which was a bit grander. It played double features in the 50s.
The David was the name of the 55th St. Playhouse when it went porno.
You’re all crazy. It was located between 8th Ave. & Broadway, on the south side of the street, closer to B'way. I can take you to the site today if you wish.
My dad worked at DuArt and he’d take me to work on a given Saturday and park me at the 55th St. Playhouse. I remember they had marathons of UPA cartoons and the first Chaplin’s I’d ever seen. This must have been when he reissued compilations of his early shorts in the early 50s. I just remember being disappointed at first because I thought they were going to be Charlie Chase films, an artist I became very familiar with because parts of his films were used as filler in Howdy Doody. I sat through the marathons twice. I have seen the Chaplin’s many times since then but the UPA cartoons are never revived, perhaps because of the crappy Mr. Magoo cartoons that were made for TV.