Ridgewood Theatre

The Ridgewood draws heavily from Brooklyn so I guess it could survive, but they don’t seem to be doing anything to keep it up since they were the only game in town for so long.

Thanks for the recent pix, Warren. I think the stars are just for the holidays.

No, it’s crystal clear. I know exactly what you mean. My mother said almost exactly the same thing after her electric schock treatments 40 ½ years ago.

Again, the comments counter is only there as a courtesy. We don’t guarantee its accuracy.

Thank you, Lost Memory ! Having survived the fires of my youth, I now look forward to my approaching maturity.

You have implicitly wished me the Polish “sto lat !”, which means, may you live to be a hundred ! Thanks !

Yes, take a camera to Ridgewood, but wear a flak jacket to be on the safe side, if you wish. You might wish to question Bway and mrbillyc about their recent experience.

Thanks for the news and the current details of Ridgewood, mrbillyc. I will be back there some time this week. Regards to you, too.

Bushwick has been making a comeback, so how can Ridgewood be far behind ?

Unfortunately, Ridgewoood’s adjoining neighborhood of Bushwick was in the news in a bad way a week ago : the woman who was pushed into her home near Irving, Myrtle and Grove and allegedly raped by two 83rd Precinct police officers.

There was also that news of that man stabbed while coming home to 67-68 Booth Street in Forest Hills.

Thanks, Lost Memory ! How did you know that tomorrow is my 50th birthday ?

By the way, there definitely seems to be a problem with disappearing posts and it isn’t just Lost Memory having issues. I created a listing for the Victory Theater in Bayside, NY and a post from Warren (in fact the only post on that page) has gone missing from the site: /theaters/13793/

Lost Memory, you’re welcome to make as many comment as you like!

If you have any missing comments, it’s most likely a technical error of some sort. We certainly have no reason to prevent you from making comments on Cinema Treasures.

Congrats, btw, for being our number one poster!

Lost, why don’t you try emailing one of the webmasters or Bryan? They may not see your message here, as they probably don’t read every post posted under every theater.

All I have to say is “OMG”. I stumbled upon this site while searching for some information for my daughter about Ridgewood. I couldn’t stop reading and especially flawed when I read DABOC’s posting because I grew up at 1681 Madison St and remember her and April growing up. I have so many fond memories of the Ridgewood because as a kid our life revolved around it. We played on that side of Madison because nobody lived there. I played Ace, King Queen with Daboc. We played stickball with spauldings purchased from Joe’s Army and Navy store for 11 cents and tried to throw them over the Ridgewood Movie Theater’s roof when they died. Every Wednesday they would push the ladder cart out of the stage entrance and roll it down Madison St to Myrtle and change the marquee. We would try to figure out what the jumbled letters were going to say so we could get in first to see the movie from the children’s sections with the overseeing matron that made sure you stayed in that section. In the summer when I was off from PS 81, they would open the doors to air the theatre. We would sit in the theatre as Smitty and Frank cleaned just to get some relief from the hot summer days. Once in a while the guys would lock us in. And yes when I grew older we figured out a way to sneak in by leaving a door open saving that 50 cent admission. I remember the first movie I saw at night with my Dad and the first time I sat in the balcony was 1963 “How the West was Won”. I also remember the new technology of closed circuit broadcast of the Sonny Liston/ Cassius Clay boxing match and my Dad standing in line to get in. This was a great trip down memory lane.
DABOC- do you remember 5 cent candy at Mike’s deli? Playing Blindman buff inside the gate with those beautiful picket fences? and I do remember the Dave Clark 5 making a personal appearance at the
Ridgewood. And James Brown at the Madison. The Madison is another story. Thanks all for the memories.

I remember well this 1971 re-release of “The House of Wax”. My father took me and 3 of my friends to see it Christmas Week when we were off from school. It seems like an odd holiday release but the Ridgewood was packed. We sat in the blacony because my father wanted to smoke.
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MONICA—i read your web site and for a young lady you certainly have a love for ridgewood keep up the good work ..i am an old timer age 77 now living in ocala florida email is I AM GOING TO ASK YOU A special FAVOR….i remeber ridgewood in the 1930s and would love to have aphotograph of Dorest Avenue near the train station and an OLD butcher shop about half a block away on the corner near putnam av …it was called i think WILLIAM HARMS MEATS ..if you could take a snapshot i would greatly appreciate it…i do not have your email address yyou could post it on this site or maybe email me as an enclosure many many thanks and bless you william metzelaar another email address is i hope to hear from you on cinema treasures or via email gracias

Ooops, typo alert above, I meant the late 80’s, McCrory’s closed, not the late 90’s…..