As a youngster in the 50s I remember seeing the Duncan Yo Yo man coming to the Elmwood for a Saturday matinee every summer. The Folks would take us to the movies on hot summer evenings just for the Air Conditioning. Saw Davey Crocket, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea and Bambi there to name a few. As a teenager there was The Hustler, Compulsion and many more. And don’t forget the chic-flicks like April Love and West Side Story so we could hang with the girls. I remember getting to the theater too late for admittance (5PM?) with a buddy after we finished our LI Star Journal paper routes. We were only 12, so we had to get an adult to take us in. The movie was Curse Of Frankenstein.
In later years I worked across the Blvd. at both the little Gulf station on the triangle and at the Food Parade Supermarket.
When the BQE finally completed the section between Roosevelt Ave and Queens Blvd, a part of 68th St. had to be angled over to meet Woodside Ave. This act chopped off most of the lobby and front of the Fisk. A couple of stores with apartments above were built in its place on Woodside and right at the new corner, a driveway was cut into the block, but much of what had been the seating area remains on 68th St and is now being used as an auto repair shop.
As a youngster in the 50s I remember seeing the Duncan Yo Yo man coming to the Elmwood for a Saturday matinee every summer. The Folks would take us to the movies on hot summer evenings just for the Air Conditioning. Saw Davey Crocket, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea and Bambi there to name a few. As a teenager there was The Hustler, Compulsion and many more. And don’t forget the chic-flicks like April Love and West Side Story so we could hang with the girls. I remember getting to the theater too late for admittance (5PM?) with a buddy after we finished our LI Star Journal paper routes. We were only 12, so we had to get an adult to take us in. The movie was Curse Of Frankenstein. In later years I worked across the Blvd. at both the little Gulf station on the triangle and at the Food Parade Supermarket.
When the BQE finally completed the section between Roosevelt Ave and Queens Blvd, a part of 68th St. had to be angled over to meet Woodside Ave. This act chopped off most of the lobby and front of the Fisk. A couple of stores with apartments above were built in its place on Woodside and right at the new corner, a driveway was cut into the block, but much of what had been the seating area remains on 68th St and is now being used as an auto repair shop.