There was another Spanish house with live shows along Flagler Street and towards downtown that closed in the late fifties/early sixties. It was displaced by 1-95 construction and was called Radio Centro or Radio City. Any ideas?
I was recently informed that the amusement park behind the North Side Mall and home to the morning Rick Shaw Show go-go girls was segregated to whites only, well into the sixties. Does anyone have any information on this?
This was a Florida State Theatre at one time and a Brandt house during it’s later years. It mostly ran roadshow, twice a day, exclusive runs such as HELLO, DOLLY! for long runs.
The copy above should have mentioned that this was a Loews house from the period when the Westchester, 170th Street, Riviera, Bay Harbor, Lauderhill and, eventually the short-lived Konover, made the Loews name well known in South Florida.
So a profitable 12 screen theatre in a one-horse house is being pushed out of business by the incompetent beaurocrats who planned a new expensive never-to-be profitable 20-plex in a location where no one goes after dark.
Close the new white elephant, count your loses and never elect this clan of assholes again. Piracy is not a problem in Redwood. City planners are your pirates.
Dave-Bronx, CinemaRadio allowed people with hearing problems better access to the soundtrack by bringing earphones and a transistor radio and tuning in to a specific frequency. Modern cinemas have loops or infrared devices that do the same thing through multichannel hearing aids.
How about that little add for the mysterious Camelot Twin in the East Village? Did anyone ever confrim if it was indeed The Gate?
I believe the Dominion holds the world record for the longest film run ever with SOUTH PACIFIC. Not counting midnight shows such as ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW)
Can you please tell us what the problem is? You are both incredible contributors to this site and I think I speak for several CT members here who look forward to your every post.
Although on some level I do enjoy a bitchfest, what’s it all about?
LOST MEMORY first, I will play Oprah for you. Do you think we care about contributor’s personal lives?bTell me about it, honey? (hand folded, eyes glistening)
My single memory of Webster Hall consisted of a doorman questioning my rather clunky shoes (the transvestite before me got in with ten inch kinky boots)and a trapeze act over the dance floor. The upstairs was a retro SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER disco.
The place had a decidedly Midwest barnyard feel unworthy of Manhattan.
I think if we were to open any site to such venues we would have new boundaries to deal with. The Tunnel was a subway stop complete with urinals at the bar although I am sure many had an epiphany there and where would you place the Limelight?
I say we stick to the movies. Club USA was a pimple in the life of this venue anyway.
In May 1934 the Columbia was showing a move-over from the Mayfair of HITLER’S REIGN OF TERROR. Although it rarely showed films, they seems to have co-existed or there was another Columbia on 47th and Broadway.
Still here in London. I figured out who you are from your posts and told Steve, who sends his regards. If you write to me at I can give you an email address for Steve. Let me know if you ever found Kieth.
Just so this isn’t a strictly personal post, the Waverly marquee was used by a British movie website to promote itself two years ago. Imagine my shock at entering a London tube station to find a poster size photo of the Waverly marquee and the door to my previous “flat”. As they say here, “I was gobsmacked!”
LI, they took the little parking lot in the back and added to the building. They also took the stores next door and incorporated them and the upper floor loft apartment into a bar and a third screen. The end result is quiet good.
In a final testament to decency, the bar is still called the Waverly. Worth checking out!
Ed, Cineplex Odeon was concerned that their Chelsea nineplex was easily outgrossing the triple down the street. In an effort to equate the two in everyone’s eyes they decided to combine two of the screens at the triplex and make that location as good or better than the nineplex. They renamed it Chelsea West in the process and it has since hosted several films premieres including Woody Allen films.
That documentary about the DEEP THROAT phenomenon played nationwide a few years back and was not a graphic sex film.
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE is a separate film and an indictment of the Irish Catholic church. This is an specialised (arthouse) movie theatre.
I like hearing a little about the old neighborhoods and type of films the theatre showed. It adds a unique personality to those theatre pages.
As for the story of plaster, I scroll on when irony eludes me.
Lost Memory, so happy you are still around. I would like to think Warren, Ed and I are happy you are.
Even when we think you are are tiresome, we know we can be too.
New paragraph!
Not that there is anything wrong with that that.
At some point operated by Claughton Theatres.
There was another Spanish house with live shows along Flagler Street and towards downtown that closed in the late fifties/early sixties. It was displaced by 1-95 construction and was called Radio Centro or Radio City. Any ideas?
I was recently informed that the amusement park behind the North Side Mall and home to the morning Rick Shaw Show go-go girls was segregated to whites only, well into the sixties. Does anyone have any information on this?
This was a Florida State Theatre at one time and a Brandt house during it’s later years. It mostly ran roadshow, twice a day, exclusive runs such as HELLO, DOLLY! for long runs.
The copy above should have mentioned that this was a Loews house from the period when the Westchester, 170th Street, Riviera, Bay Harbor, Lauderhill and, eventually the short-lived Konover, made the Loews name well known in South Florida.
LOL. VIXEN was a political statement with redeeming social values. Well, the last ten minutes were, anyway.
A little deceptive advertising. The opening month of 1776 broke RCMH attendance records due to the live Christmas Nativity show being so popular.
So a profitable 12 screen theatre in a one-horse house is being pushed out of business by the incompetent beaurocrats who planned a new expensive never-to-be profitable 20-plex in a location where no one goes after dark.
Close the new white elephant, count your loses and never elect this clan of assholes again. Piracy is not a problem in Redwood. City planners are your pirates.
Dave-Bronx, CinemaRadio allowed people with hearing problems better access to the soundtrack by bringing earphones and a transistor radio and tuning in to a specific frequency. Modern cinemas have loops or infrared devices that do the same thing through multichannel hearing aids.
How about that little add for the mysterious Camelot Twin in the East Village? Did anyone ever confrim if it was indeed The Gate?
pierdaawg, are you thinking of the Miracle?
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That beats any New York run. I was told they only used two prints of SOUTH PACIFIC during that whole run!
I believe the Dominion holds the world record for the longest film run ever with SOUTH PACIFIC. Not counting midnight shows such as ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW)
An open letter to LOST MEMORY and WARREN.
Can you please tell us what the problem is? You are both incredible contributors to this site and I think I speak for several CT members here who look forward to your every post.
Although on some level I do enjoy a bitchfest, what’s it all about?
LOST MEMORY first, I will play Oprah for you. Do you think we care about contributor’s personal lives?bTell me about it, honey? (hand folded, eyes glistening)
Al
My single memory of Webster Hall consisted of a doorman questioning my rather clunky shoes (the transvestite before me got in with ten inch kinky boots)and a trapeze act over the dance floor. The upstairs was a retro SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER disco.
The place had a decidedly Midwest barnyard feel unworthy of Manhattan.
I think if we were to open any site to such venues we would have new boundaries to deal with. The Tunnel was a subway stop complete with urinals at the bar although I am sure many had an epiphany there and where would you place the Limelight?
I say we stick to the movies. Club USA was a pimple in the life of this venue anyway.
Absolutely beautiful shot. Best of luck on this labor of love!
Thanks guys. That makes perfect sense.
In May 1934 the Columbia was showing a move-over from the Mayfair of HITLER’S REIGN OF TERROR. Although it rarely showed films, they seems to have co-existed or there was another Columbia on 47th and Broadway.
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Still here in London. I figured out who you are from your posts and told Steve, who sends his regards. If you write to me at I can give you an email address for Steve. Let me know if you ever found Kieth.
Just so this isn’t a strictly personal post, the Waverly marquee was used by a British movie website to promote itself two years ago. Imagine my shock at entering a London tube station to find a poster size photo of the Waverly marquee and the door to my previous “flat”. As they say here, “I was gobsmacked!”
Tell me about it. It was my home for seven years.
It’s thosee damn talkies. I told you they would never catch on!
LI, they took the little parking lot in the back and added to the building. They also took the stores next door and incorporated them and the upper floor loft apartment into a bar and a third screen. The end result is quiet good.
In a final testament to decency, the bar is still called the Waverly. Worth checking out!
Ed, Cineplex Odeon was concerned that their Chelsea nineplex was easily outgrossing the triple down the street. In an effort to equate the two in everyone’s eyes they decided to combine two of the screens at the triplex and make that location as good or better than the nineplex. They renamed it Chelsea West in the process and it has since hosted several films premieres including Woody Allen films.