the Ziegfeld is closed for a couple weeks, so it will lose less money. There’s isn’t any chance at all that the Loew’s King, built with more than 3000 seats, as a single auditorium, is going to again show new movies. That’s like all the suggestions that the Embassy 2-3-4 aka Mayfair would again do so. The Mayfair is being gutted to its bare walls now. Focus on the Loews Kings showcasing live shows….or see it gone.
I agree totally that on website, AFI should identify which film is in the historic auditorium!!
As to the Avalon, under various management over the years, that theater has always specified Avalon 1 (the beautiful huge downstairs auditorium) or Avalon 2 (upstairs). I'v seen a movie upstairs since the nonprofit community tookover, and it isn’t inappropriate for an arthouse film. It isn’t a huge auditorium or screen, but it has been refurbished as comfortable as possible. I’d rather see a movie upstairs any day than in NYC’s Lincoln Plaza.
I wasn’t impressed with it on TV. Blade Runner was very impressive in 1998 on the huge screen at the Uptown in Washington D.C. albeit in 35 mm because it was part of Warner Brothers 75th Anniv & none of those films arrived in 70 mm. At least some of your listings above indicate that the movie in 1982 didn’t get the largest widest screens that it does deserve.
I’d hope, even if limited release, a re-release in 70 mm could be possible, including at the D.C. Uptown.
This afternoon, I photographed the Murano residential tower that is being built on what I think is the site of the Erlanger. The Erlanger closed in the 1970’s and was demolished in that decade.
Having been well reviewed by the critics, La Vie en Rose seems to be doing well at the Paris. Yesterday, the orchestra was crowded during the afternoon.
The lobby display, in the niche to the right, no longer changes with the movie. I think it was sometime earlier this year, perhaps in February when Breaking and Entering was shown, that the display became a wonderful montage of Paris monuments and actors.
I’d like to see a photo of the former, huge basement lounge.
the above article specifies:
As the 20th-century Paramount is painstakingly restored â€" from the ornate vents in the sealing to the murals on the walls and the Art Deco seats
It is a shame that decoration is being gutted! There are a few photos of the interior after triplexed at www.cinematour.org under Mayfair. Don’t other people have additional interior photos other than the few linked above??
As to people who were thinking this theater could be a daily single screen movie theater again, that’s not real world in the age where there’s no more downtown exclusive! Thankfully, one movie premiere is taking place tonight at Radio City and the Ziegfeld continues (for the time being). People can hope that in the future maybe the Hollywood Theatre (by Lamb) will be available for film premieres/film classics/film festivals. With it rotunda lobby and gorgeous auditorium, built as a movie palace, it would be wonderful to see a film there (though the primary use could be legit theater if it is ever acquired from the church).
Of course you did. That’s the same story worldwide. A quick google search doesn’t reveal other York cinemas listed at cinematreasures.org. If you know any details (names, style, year built, year closed, what they are now) about them, feel free to list them, even if only here in reply. Movie theater fans visiting York may want to glance at a building and realize what it was.
I look forward to hearing in the future about the renovation of the Odeon York! if possible, you might to telephone the new company, or the town authorities, to inquire about the mural. Even if they know about it, lobbying by individual citizens could result in it being un-hidden.
hah? so if I inform you that the Boyd Theatre is downtown Philadelphia’s last surviving pre-war movie palace, then you’d conclude the others were bombed by the Germans during World War II rather than lost due to TV, suburbs, multiplexes, etc?
How sad! Let’s hope any new owners does indeed incorporate the facade with the wonderful looking marquee, and the gorgeous Art Deco/Art Moderne light fixtures, too, in a new building if this theater is demolished.
I have once visited York and seen the exterior of this theater, but wasn’t inside.
Where is the hidden mural?
If the balcony auditorium is going to be triplexed, will 3 not very large screens be up there instead of the large screen seen in the photos?
Who will attend the reopened theater if there’s movie theaters for mainstream films, and art films, nearby? Are those theaters convenient, comfortable, and up to date?
Of course, that this theater isn’t to be demolished (which seems the fate of the Manchester one) is great
Anthony DiFlorio III (who supplied the above photos!) received the below email, and has told me I can post it here:
What a memory! But you must know the Grand is/was at Seventh and Snyder Avenue not Sixth Street. It once was a Baptist Church but as the neighborhood changed before WWI it became a hall and eventually a movie house. It was three-four blocks from where I lived, near Ninth and Wolf Streets. I seldom went to the Grand for one good reason. The fare was nineteen cents because it was air-conditioned! It was tough enough for me to get eleven cents for the Colonial movie house, nineteen cents was beyond my reach. But just to experience the air-conditioning, I very slowly accumulated nineteen pennies and entered the frigid world and saw Spencer Tracy and Bartholmew -what ever the rest of his name- was in some fishing drama. How I accumulated nineteen pennies is another story. Thanks for the memory.
Umberto LaPaglia
The Synder Avenue Baptist Church was converted into a moviehouse in 1911. The listing above that Hoffman-Henon were the architects is mistaken. Silent films were joined by vaudeville. . Another renovation, by architect W.H. Lee, took place in the 1930’s. The Grand had 850 seats. A retail store took over by the 1960’s.
Current exterior photos by Anthony DiFlorio III are linked below.
Sign proclaims Grand Theatre Talkies Matinee Daily: View link
Another photo shows corner view, and a sign proclaims Grand Theatre: View link
There are more Grand signs visible, too, elswhere on the building.
Ah, after more searching online, I can answer my question as to the wallpaper.
Nicotine Room aka Men’s Lounge, in 2006, with same wallpaper, sconce, and some surviving furniture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/89841688/
A family member of decorator Armando T. Ricci (who worked on the Boyd Theatre www.FriendsOfTheBoyd.org)) sent me a 1941 Theatre Catalog article by Ricci. To share historic photos of Radio City Music Hall, I scanned it.
These are likely Opening Day photos with Ricci’s description, of a corner of the grand lounge, and the Nicotine Room!
I’ve been to Radio City Music Hall, but don’t recall seeing the Art Deco furniture. Does Bouche’s mural survive? Does Deskey’s Nicotine Room wallpaper (assuming that’s wallpaper) survive?
$5 Clearview classics summer 2007 at Clairidge Cinema (973) 746-5564, sponsored by The Montclair Times, Wednesday & Thursday 7:15 PM, Saturday & Sunday 11 AM, June 6-7 & 9-10, Rebel Without a Cause, June 13-14 &16-17 East of Eden, June 20-21 & 23-24 Giant, June 27-28 & June 30, July 1 A Streetcar Named Desire, July 4-5 & 7-8 The Wizard of Oz, July 11-12 & 14-15 An Affair to Remember, July 18-19 & 21-22 Manhattan, July 25-26 & 28-29 Raging Bull
Just so visitors to this site know, the Bradbury, though not a theater, is a wonderful historic building that can be visited:
View link
the Ziegfeld is closed for a couple weeks, so it will lose less money. There’s isn’t any chance at all that the Loew’s King, built with more than 3000 seats, as a single auditorium, is going to again show new movies. That’s like all the suggestions that the Embassy 2-3-4 aka Mayfair would again do so. The Mayfair is being gutted to its bare walls now. Focus on the Loews Kings showcasing live shows….or see it gone.
I agree totally that on website, AFI should identify which film is in the historic auditorium!!
As to the Avalon, under various management over the years, that theater has always specified Avalon 1 (the beautiful huge downstairs auditorium) or Avalon 2 (upstairs). I'v seen a movie upstairs since the nonprofit community tookover, and it isn’t inappropriate for an arthouse film. It isn’t a huge auditorium or screen, but it has been refurbished as comfortable as possible. I’d rather see a movie upstairs any day than in NYC’s Lincoln Plaza.
I wasn’t impressed with it on TV. Blade Runner was very impressive in 1998 on the huge screen at the Uptown in Washington D.C. albeit in 35 mm because it was part of Warner Brothers 75th Anniv & none of those films arrived in 70 mm. At least some of your listings above indicate that the movie in 1982 didn’t get the largest widest screens that it does deserve.
I’d hope, even if limited release, a re-release in 70 mm could be possible, including at the D.C. Uptown.
This afternoon, I photographed the Murano residential tower that is being built on what I think is the site of the Erlanger. The Erlanger closed in the 1970’s and was demolished in that decade.
Here are my photos at the Paris of a few of the movies shown in the last few years:
2005 Happily Ever After, View link
2006
The White Countess, View link
Copying Beethoven, View link
2007
The Namesake, View link
Paris, Je T'aime, View link
La Vie En Rose, View link
Having been well reviewed by the critics, La Vie en Rose seems to be doing well at the Paris. Yesterday, the orchestra was crowded during the afternoon.
The lobby display, in the niche to the right, no longer changes with the movie. I think it was sometime earlier this year, perhaps in February when Breaking and Entering was shown, that the display became a wonderful montage of Paris monuments and actors.
I’d like to see a photo of the former, huge basement lounge.
I meant www.cinematour.com
the above article specifies:
As the 20th-century Paramount is painstakingly restored â€" from the ornate vents in the sealing to the murals on the walls and the Art Deco seats
It is a shame that decoration is being gutted! There are a few photos of the interior after triplexed at www.cinematour.org under Mayfair. Don’t other people have additional interior photos other than the few linked above??
As to people who were thinking this theater could be a daily single screen movie theater again, that’s not real world in the age where there’s no more downtown exclusive! Thankfully, one movie premiere is taking place tonight at Radio City and the Ziegfeld continues (for the time being). People can hope that in the future maybe the Hollywood Theatre (by Lamb) will be available for film premieres/film classics/film festivals. With it rotunda lobby and gorgeous auditorium, built as a movie palace, it would be wonderful to see a film there (though the primary use could be legit theater if it is ever acquired from the church).
Nice photos, thanks for sharing your photos of this Art Deco gem. It is a shame that it closed.
Of course you did. That’s the same story worldwide. A quick google search doesn’t reveal other York cinemas listed at cinematreasures.org. If you know any details (names, style, year built, year closed, what they are now) about them, feel free to list them, even if only here in reply. Movie theater fans visiting York may want to glance at a building and realize what it was.
I look forward to hearing in the future about the renovation of the Odeon York! if possible, you might to telephone the new company, or the town authorities, to inquire about the mural. Even if they know about it, lobbying by individual citizens could result in it being un-hidden.
hah? so if I inform you that the Boyd Theatre is downtown Philadelphia’s last surviving pre-war movie palace, then you’d conclude the others were bombed by the Germans during World War II rather than lost due to TV, suburbs, multiplexes, etc?
How sad! Let’s hope any new owners does indeed incorporate the facade with the wonderful looking marquee, and the gorgeous Art Deco/Art Moderne light fixtures, too, in a new building if this theater is demolished.
I have once visited York and seen the exterior of this theater, but wasn’t inside.
Where is the hidden mural?
If the balcony auditorium is going to be triplexed, will 3 not very large screens be up there instead of the large screen seen in the photos?
Who will attend the reopened theater if there’s movie theaters for mainstream films, and art films, nearby? Are those theaters convenient, comfortable, and up to date?
Of course, that this theater isn’t to be demolished (which seems the fate of the Manchester one) is great
sounds like they could be gutting it.
Photos:
http://www.theunitedpalace.com/slideshow1.htm
Are there interior photos (before the trashing)? I’d especially like to see the crush bar mentioned above with 1930’s feel, but eager to see the rest.
Anthony DiFlorio III (who supplied the above photos!) received the below email, and has told me I can post it here:
What a memory! But you must know the Grand is/was at Seventh and Snyder Avenue not Sixth Street. It once was a Baptist Church but as the neighborhood changed before WWI it became a hall and eventually a movie house. It was three-four blocks from where I lived, near Ninth and Wolf Streets. I seldom went to the Grand for one good reason. The fare was nineteen cents because it was air-conditioned! It was tough enough for me to get eleven cents for the Colonial movie house, nineteen cents was beyond my reach. But just to experience the air-conditioning, I very slowly accumulated nineteen pennies and entered the frigid world and saw Spencer Tracy and Bartholmew -what ever the rest of his name- was in some fishing drama. How I accumulated nineteen pennies is another story. Thanks for the memory.
Umberto LaPaglia
The Synder Avenue Baptist Church was converted into a moviehouse in 1911. The listing above that Hoffman-Henon were the architects is mistaken. Silent films were joined by vaudeville. . Another renovation, by architect W.H. Lee, took place in the 1930’s. The Grand had 850 seats. A retail store took over by the 1960’s.
Current exterior photos by Anthony DiFlorio III are linked below.
Sign proclaims Grand Theatre Talkies Matinee Daily:
View link
Another photo shows corner view, and a sign proclaims Grand Theatre:
View link
There are more Grand signs visible, too, elswhere on the building.
Ah, after some online searching, I can answer my question as to the wallpaper.
Nicotine Room aka Men’s Lounge, in 2006, with same wallpaper, sconce, and some surviving furniture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/89841688/
Ah, after more searching online, I can answer my question as to the wallpaper.
Nicotine Room aka Men’s Lounge, in 2006, with same wallpaper, sconce, and some surviving furniture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/89841688/
Stairway:
View link
A family member of decorator Armando T. Ricci (who worked on the Boyd Theatre www.FriendsOfTheBoyd.org)) sent me a 1941 Theatre Catalog article by Ricci. To share historic photos of Radio City Music Hall, I scanned it.
These are likely Opening Day photos with Ricci’s description, of a corner of the grand lounge, and the Nicotine Room!
View link
close-up of Nicotine Room:
View link
Online, here’s Donald Deskey in the Nicotine Room:
View link
corner of Grand Lounge:
View link
I’ve been to Radio City Music Hall, but don’t recall seeing the Art Deco furniture. Does Bouche’s mural survive? Does Deskey’s Nicotine Room wallpaper (assuming that’s wallpaper) survive?
$5 Clearview classics summer 2007 at Clairidge Cinema (973) 746-5564, sponsored by The Montclair Times, Wednesday & Thursday 7:15 PM, Saturday & Sunday 11 AM, June 6-7 & 9-10, Rebel Without a Cause, June 13-14 &16-17 East of Eden, June 20-21 & 23-24 Giant, June 27-28 & June 30, July 1 A Streetcar Named Desire, July 4-5 & 7-8 The Wizard of Oz, July 11-12 & 14-15 An Affair to Remember, July 18-19 & 21-22 Manhattan, July 25-26 & 28-29 Raging Bull