Ritz Theatre
Northern Boulevard and 154th Street,
Flushing,
NY
11354
Northern Boulevard and 154th Street,
Flushing,
NY
11354
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Built during the WWI era, the Ritz Theatre served Flushing’s Murray Hill district, which includes the Broadway station of the Long Island Rail Road’s Port Washington line. The small cinema fell victim to the post-war recession and became an auto repair garage until 1923, when the owner of the Janice Theatre in downtown Flushing took over and converted it back into a cinema.
The latest movies opened at the Janice and then moved to the Ritz for a brief run. The Ritz closed permanently in 1927 due to fierce competition from the larger and more luxurious Roosevelt Theatre, which opened only seven blocks away in 1926.
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Warren G. Harris
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The legendary Alla Nazimova is probably best-remembered today as owner of the Garden of Allah, a hotel/bungalow complex on Sunset Boulevard that was a home-away-from-home for celebrities during Hollywood’s Golden Age:
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Warren G. Harris has provided this link to the Queens Chronicle for August 20, 2009, featuring an article about and photo of the Ritz Theatre:
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Please thank Warren for providing this post. I’m glad he’ll still be contributing links for us, even though he won’t be on the board any more.