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Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on May 24, 2006 at 12:28 am

This is now listed twice.

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Al Alvarez commented about Tower Theater on May 23, 2006 at 12:07 am

The Tower opened in the late twenties and was given the art deco treatment when it became a Wometco house in the early thirties.

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Al Alvarez commented about Avenue Playhouse on May 21, 2006 at 10:06 am

www.imdb.com

ROSE OF TRAILEE 21 October, 1938 release in NY as showed in Variety and the NY Times at the Irish Theatre.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Avenue Playhouse on May 21, 2006 at 8:58 am

Known as the Irish Theatre for the brief run of the film version of ROSE OF TRALEE in 1938, the first film made in Ireland.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about 5th Avenue Cinema on May 12, 2006 at 10:38 am

It was showing movies from at least November, 1926, starting with a re-release of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI followed by the first run of MIKAEL (AKA, Chained, The Invert) a German gay drama about aging painter Rodin, his male model and the woman who gets in their way. (Only the village would accept THAT plot line in 1926!)

This was the 5th Avenue Playhouse while the Proctor house on 28th Street operated as the 5th Avenue Theatre.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Odeon Luxe London Leicester Square on May 11, 2006 at 1:55 pm

This website posts upcoming movie premieres in Leicester Square.

http://www.heartoflondon.info/

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about National Theatre & Roosevelt Theatre on May 11, 2006 at 10:49 am

LM, it’s the same place. It was the National Winter Garden Burlesque, then the Ibsen, then the Rosoevelt Little as a cinema then back to National for Yiddish Vaudeville.

111 East Houston works fine as an address.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Colony Theatre on May 11, 2006 at 8:31 am

In the sixties, the Colony was home to THE SOUND OF MUSIC on road show release. On it’s first anniversary, the managers sent the local critic an anniversary cake marking one year since he had written his scathing review of the film.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about New Europe Theatre on May 10, 2006 at 2:26 pm

Advertised as the 78th Street Playhouse for the run of RESERVE ON FURLOUGH in April 1932.

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Al Alvarez commented about National Theatre & Roosevelt Theatre on May 10, 2006 at 1:35 pm

A 1934 NY Times article mentions the Roosevelt Little as another name for the National Theatre (legit). The National was on the SW corner of Houston and Christie which maps now as 273 Bowery, 10002, COMMON RETIREMENT FUN!

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Evergreen Theatre on May 10, 2006 at 1:16 pm

The premiere reserved seat venue for I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW) is now a church???

I just did a spit take all over my computer!

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about West End Theatre on May 10, 2006 at 12:24 pm

I have been searching for a theatre called the Palace St Nicholas which was showing movies in 1918. I finally found something about it in a 1903 NY Times article.

It was to be built as a playhouse adjoining the West End Theatre property on St. Nicholas Avenue and Hamilton Place. It ran boxing and plays as well as movies and also had an Annex (roof?).

It was built by a sindicate of theatrical and business men and has a frontage of 188 feet on St. Nicholas and 100 feet 11 inches on Hamilton (125th St?).

Louise M. Goldstein (Murray Hill Lyceum), Charles Bimberg, and Archibald Bimberg composed the syndicate who expect the building to be ready by February 1904.

The building style will be free Renaissance and the material Roman buff brick, limestone and terra cotta with a seating capcaity of 1800.

Is this the LAGREE BAPTIST CHURCH?

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about New World Stages on May 9, 2006 at 8:34 am

The Dodger Stages are now the New World Stages.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Life Magazine seeks the most interesting cinemas in America on May 8, 2006 at 1:23 am

Yes, Norelco. I have worked old theatres with faulty electricity, drafty unsealed vents and crap plumbing. Must be the work of aliens.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Ultravision Theatre on May 7, 2006 at 3:58 pm

This was an ABC Florida State Chain Theatre.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about New Victory Theater on May 7, 2006 at 3:28 am

Nice shots, Ed!

There was a Loew’s Victory on 155th Street and 3rd avenue open in the 40’s that does not appear to be listed here. Does anyone have any info on that one?

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Life Magazine seeks the most interesting cinemas in America on May 6, 2006 at 3:38 pm

Hey Decatur Dave, that spec sounds like “most stupid concept for a magazine article in history?”

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Victoria Theatre on May 6, 2006 at 10:50 am

Laffmovie should be added to previous names (1942-1943).

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Rivoli Theatre on May 6, 2006 at 4:28 am

United Artists Twin should be an additional name here. Like it or not, it ran under that name for almost three years.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Warners' Theatre on May 6, 2006 at 3:36 am

This must hold the record for most name changes in Manhattan. Following this theatre is like tracing someone on a witness relocation program.

1924 Piccadilly
1925 Warner's
1935 New Yorker
1936 Oriental
1938 Continental
1943 Abbey
1944 Manhattan
1945 Republic

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Tropicaire Drive-In on May 6, 2006 at 12:41 am

The Dixie Drive I know was on US 1 in Goulds, so Perrine must be the one as those two towns are close.

LeJeune Drive-In, 27th Avenue & LeJeune Road.
Wometco’s 27th Avenue Drive-In, NW 27th & 87th Street
Turnpike Drive-In, NW 27th Avenue & 128th Street
Wometco’s No. Dade Drive-In, 27th Avenue & 171st Street
E.M. Loew’s Miami Drive-In, NW 7th Avenue & 79th STreet
Wometco’s Coral Way Drive-In, SW 24th Street & 70th Avenue
Golden Glades Drive-In, Palmetto EXpressway and 37th Avenue

I also found the No. Andrews, Gulfstream, Arrow, Breezeway, Gold Coast Drive-In

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about United Artists 64th & 2nd Avenue on May 5, 2006 at 12:57 pm

Why the Columbia I & II not a previous name here?

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Tribeca Cinemas on May 5, 2006 at 12:45 pm

This is all well and nice but did this cinema ever open?

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Trans-Lux Modern Theatre on May 5, 2006 at 12:32 pm

Was it ever anythiong but a newsreel theatre?

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez commented about Trans-Lux Modern Theatre on May 5, 2006 at 12:14 pm

Was this ever anything other than a newsreel theatre?