Loew's Willard Theatre

Thank YOU. BklynJim !

Thanks, BklynJim, is that your private e-mail address you’ve supplied us with ? I clicked on it, and it automatically generated a blank e-mail addressed to it.

Thanks, Warren. Interesting, in that the Willard was neither in Richmond Hill nor Kew Gardens, but in Woodhaven.

Thanks, Warren. What newspaper was that from ?

EdSolero, I’ve grown tired of flame wars.

Things have certainly gotten a might less interesting around here… and I don’t just mean the fact that the flame wars have been doused.

where did everybody go ? robbie

EdSolero: I enjoyed your comment. I too am apt to go off-topic, but it’s mostly nostalgic recollections of my theaters in the hope of finding kindred spirits if not long lost friends. I have differnt recollections of my “favorites” list which I have described in their sections. I believe I saw most of the movies ever made from the ‘40s through the early '60s. As well as many made in the '30s which I saw in “re-runs” at the Acme or Belvedere, where I spent a few summers. I don’t consider myself a movie or theater expert to the extent some on this list are.

You made a good suggestion regarding deselecting the notification button on the Ridgewood page.

LM’s tongue in cheek remark about ‘Plaster’ was lost on me. It did however remind me of something my Industrial Design instructor at Brooklyn Tech had us memorize: “Portland cement is the product obtained by calcining to incipient fusion intimate and properly proportioned mixtures of argillaceous and calcareous materials without the subsequent addition of anything except water and calcined or uncalcined gypsum.” And that is from memory.!!! Not a copy and paste job.

And I won’t engage in flame wars.

Shalom, ciao, and excelsior.

“Lost Memory” seems to change his user name even more frequently than Jackie Kennedy Onassis did her underpants!

‘Tonino… I definitely see your point. But it’s an impossible thing to contain. I try to exercise a modicum of self control, but you can’t always rely on that. And I’m the first to admit that I am guilty of getting caught up in OT discussions from time to time. Unless CT management is going to administer some sort of editorial control – and I perceive that as being unlikely – I think we’re all going to have to accept OT threads as inevitability. The thing is, I think we may have now taken up just as much bandwidth arguing about OT ramblings as the OT threads have themselves!

I’ve turned off my notification on the Ridgewood page, opting to check in from time to time and see what’s going on 0- particularly since the theater’s CT number (4021) is now permanently imbedded in my memory.

Personally, I’d love to see a forum page here on CT where folks can take those threads that veer completely off course (i.e. the deep discussions of sci-fi flicks and movie quizzes and stuff like that), but some of the waxing nostalgic about movies seen at a particular theater or related neighborhood memories SHOULD be a part of the theater page. Such recollection can often provide social context and give folks from other parts of the country or world something human and emotional to which they may be able to relate on a personal level. That’s the stuff you miss when all you concern yourself with are dates and statistical figures. But I do agree, when it comes to “Hey, did you know so-and-so from Jr. High”, perhaps its time to take the conversation to email. Unfortunately, to have one, you have to have a tolerance for the other. If not, this becomes a dry scholarly site for research only and would read like a text book. And who the hell wants to read a text book? I think that was the whole point of Lost Memory’s tongue-in-cheek dissertation on plaster. Am I the only one who “got” that joke?

Signing off on the topic now… Your resident moderate.

Well-said, robbie dupree and EdSolero. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Point of View- I know little or nothing about the history or technical information about movie theatres. I come to this wonderful site to learn, and more importantly, to share memories. The movie theatres of my youth are all gone. Also gone are buildings like The Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field , old Madison Square Garden and countless other treasures . No matter how grand they were, they were only buildings, and buildings get torn down. What keeps them alive is the dialogue that takes place between us. We are the ones who bring them back to life. We are the ones who lived it. This site may have begun with the goal of collecting technical data on theatres, but it has evolved into much more than it’s creators could have imagined. True, sometimes we ramble on- but I have seen how this connection has brought great joy to many, who without Cinema Treasures, would have lost touch with the wonder of their youth- much of which was spent at the movies.There is room here for it all .
Robbie

I don’t even know what “Cinematour 2” is, so why would I want to turn this website into its equivalent? “Lost Memory”’s preposterous claims need to be rebutted immediately, before everybody starts accepting them as truth.

Ha. I got 4 of 5 on the Tor Trivia. A very humorous – and obviously loving – tribute site.

I really wish I had a virtual bucket of cold water to splash on the heated battle currently raging in CT land. I don’t plan on engaging in any sparring here. However, I have no intentions of curbing myself from making contributions to this site in any manner I see fit – whether it be posting a movie ad, sharing a photo, recalling a fond memory pertaining to a particular theater or – yes – making a jovial comment in the course of a friendly and casual off topic thread.

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