I am so glad folks are trying to save this theatre. In the 1950’s I grew up on nearby Orchard Street between Canal and Hester. I would spend Saturday afternoons seeing a double feature (Martin & Lewis, etc), a dozen cartoons and a serial, perhaps even the News of the Day newsreel. My mother took me to see Blackboard Jungle there I guess it was 1955 just before she passed away the next year. I think I paid twenty five cents. Once I won a coloring contest. They would give out promotional sketches and you would color them in, I won a doll and I am a guy! I often go back to walk the neighborhood and walk by that place. Sol
I am so glad folks are trying to save this theatre. In the 1950’s I grew up on nearby Orchard Street between Canal and Hester. I would spend Saturday afternoons seeing a double feature (Martin & Lewis, etc), a dozen cartoons and a serial, perhaps even the News of the Day newsreel. My mother took me to see Blackboard Jungle there I guess it was 1955 just before she passed away the next year. I think I paid twenty five cents. Once I won a coloring contest. They would give out promotional sketches and you would color them in, I won a doll and I am a guy! I often go back to walk the neighborhood and walk by that place. Sol