I noticed the theater closed last year, when I returned to my old neighborhood for the first time in at least a decade. I live across the street from the Fortway, at the corner of 67th, in a 4th floor apartment. This was in the 60’s. My little brother and I went to the movies most Saturday afternoons. They made us sit in the “kids' section” and those cranky “matrons” were always shining their flashlights in our faces! I remember seeing Al Lewis and Murray the K there. (They had actually advertised that all the Munsters would be there, in costume, and only Al Lewis showed up, without costume or makeup.) Everyone in the theater was screaming so loud, that I doubt anyone heard a word either man said. I miss the old neighborhood. My mother worked at the A&P, and I used to go to the candy store (Louie’s)directly across from the theater for a chocolate egg cream whenever I could scrape together enough money.
I noticed the theater closed last year, when I returned to my old neighborhood for the first time in at least a decade. I live across the street from the Fortway, at the corner of 67th, in a 4th floor apartment. This was in the 60’s. My little brother and I went to the movies most Saturday afternoons. They made us sit in the “kids' section” and those cranky “matrons” were always shining their flashlights in our faces! I remember seeing Al Lewis and Murray the K there. (They had actually advertised that all the Munsters would be there, in costume, and only Al Lewis showed up, without costume or makeup.) Everyone in the theater was screaming so loud, that I doubt anyone heard a word either man said. I miss the old neighborhood. My mother worked at the A&P, and I used to go to the candy store (Louie’s)directly across from the theater for a chocolate egg cream whenever I could scrape together enough money.