Queen Anne Theater
44 Queen Anne Road,
Bogota,
NJ
07603
44 Queen Anne Road,
Bogota,
NJ
07603
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Listed in the 1951 FDY, this theater was showing porn in the 1980’s before it closed. The auditorium section of the building is currently vacant, the foyer is in use as a dry cleaning business.
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I recently paid a visit to the Queen Anne Theater and found that although the exterior lobby and entrance are being used as a dry cleaning facility, the auditorium is still magnificient even though it has been stripped down to it’s bare skeleton. It has a very large stage with a generous orchestra pit and even dressing rooms on a second floor. It has a 50-foot high ceiling which must have had beautiful plaster work. The steel structure is still in place and includes a catwalk which was used to change the light bulbs. 500 of the seats still remain in storage and are sometimes sold on EBay. The isle ends are beautiful. The property is not for sale since the owner generates enough income from it even though the theatre sits idle.
I finally saw the side wall of the Queen Anne today, after all these years.
When it was still an art house in 1969, two days before Apollo XI landed on the moon, the Queen Anne was showing this Oscar-winning class act. I don’t think I agree with what it says in the small print on the bottom, though:
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Even back in 1961, the Queen Anne showed Adults Only fare:
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“Adults Only fare”?
Were they being exploitative? Breathless was Godard’s legendary first film, for those who don’t know, and one of the classics of the French New Wave cinema.
I think so. This was before the ratings system came into effect in the later 1960’s and porn broke out into the mainstream.
I’d say they were being exploitative. The Adults Only tag sure looks enticing and probably lured many people into the theater, especially back in 1961. I’m surprised the ad for “La Dolce Vita” at the Bellevue didn’t use it also.
Talking about exploitative: check out this one for “Birth of Triplets” in 1969:
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“You’ll Gasp – You’ll Wince – You’ll Shudder”. I can’t tell ya how much I miss movie ads like this.
I’m wondering if the co-feature No Greater Sin was the 1941 film about the ‘scourge of syphilis.’ If so, that would make it 28 years old at the time of this showing.
Gerald, I think you’re right. At least that’s the only film with that title I could find on the Internet Movie Database. As for “Birth of Triplets”, that didn’t show up on there at all!
The “Never on Sunday” ad in “61 also has an Adult tag (… "PLEASE! Don’t Bring Children!”)
Here is the current occupant:
Company: Rainbow Cleaners
Address: 42-44 Queen Anne Rd. Bogota, NJ 07603 Map
Contact: Ara Toutounjian P: 201-488-1822 F: 201-457-1444
This was the Queen Anne in 1986.