Ridgewood Amusement Palace

494 Woodward Avenue,
Ridgewood, NY 11385

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jack15
jack15 on June 4, 2009 at 9:32 pm

There could have been gap between the time they tore down the theater and the time they built the homes currently on the site. I don’t think so but again, there’s that rapidly fading memory…

Bway
Bway on May 26, 2009 at 11:38 am

I remember a small vacant corner here in the 80’s. Perhaps I am thinking of a different corner? I don’t believe I am though.

jack15
jack15 on May 15, 2009 at 2:21 pm

This site was never an empty lot except maybe for a short time when the new homes went up (late 90s early 00s). The closest thing to an empty lot was the property to the west of the the theater. This was an open yard behind a 10-12 foot solid grey metal fence. I think it was used for parking trucks. We used to play fast pitch stickball there and sometime had to go over ther fence to retreive a ball. If my rapidly fading memory recalls, we would have to climb over the fence but would come out through a door in the fence, unlocking it from the inside.

Rumor always had it that the building on the corner, always a knitting mill during my lifetime, was at onetime a theater. After the knitting mill closed they started tearing the building down. The siding came off to reveal an old sign clearly identifying the building as a theater. Unfortunately I don’t remember the exact name.

Bway
Bway on March 11, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Thanks Lost for finding out about the history of that corner. Like I said, I remember that corner since I was a kid, and always wondered why it was “empty”. I never knew a theater was once there.

Bway
Bway on February 17, 2008 at 2:46 pm

This photo flips the view around a little, with South on top:

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Bway
Bway on February 16, 2008 at 12:58 pm

Ooops, wrong corner….the garages are the site of the Germania Air-Drome. The corner to it’s left is the site of the Ridgewood Amusement Palace, where those newer homes are located.
When I was a kid, that was an empty lot. I remember wondering over there a few times. The homes were built there over the last three years or so.

Bway
Bway on February 16, 2008 at 12:54 pm

It looks like at some point the Ridgewood Amusement Palace was torn down and replaced with a whole bunch of garages:

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