Cinema Kings Highway
711 Kings Highway,
Brooklyn,
NY
11223
711 Kings Highway,
Brooklyn,
NY
11223
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Here’s a 1980s tax photo of the exterior: lunaimaging
Providing a hyperlink is not important. All one has to do is copy the link and then paste it; it’s no big deal. It doesn’t involve any strenuous exertion or sweat, lol.
I don’t know (or remember) how to hyperlink.
Here’s an activated link. I don’t know why this still doesn’t happen automatically like it used to in the original version of Cinema Treasures, but it doesn’t: cinematour
saps, thanks for that link. OMG, what an Art Deco jewel (no pun intended)!
Here’s the direct link:
http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/7176.html
I saw some beautiful pictures of the theatre on www.cinematour.com The place was a beautiful Art Deco jewel. What a shame.
I saw some pictures of the interior
Thanks for the info, saps. I enjoyed in the documentary how they revisited the theatres of Woody’s youth.
From the wnet.org website, concerning the new Woody Allen documentary. (I guess they forgot to mention that the Jewel Theater is still in business, too!)
Mia Farrow plays a Depression-era waitress who’s mad about the movies in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). While the film takes place in New Jersey, the theater where Cecilia (Farrow) sees the madcap comedy The Purple Rose of Comedy over and over again is named after The Jewel movie house in Brooklyn — one of the first movie houses in Allen’s Brooklyn neighborhood to show foreign films. The theater scenes were actually filmed in the Kent Theatre on Coney Island Avenue in Flatbush, still operating today.
A longtime Brooklyn resident, I was never inside, so I’ve learned something I didn’t know about the interior space of the Cinema. All I know about the theater is by reputation, through friends. I won’t belabor the point, but the payphone in the theater was heavily used, as were the payphones on Kings Highway near the famous notorious municipal parking lot at East 13th Street, several blocks to the east of this theater. In my day, in the 70s and 80s, this strip of Kings Highway was a famous cruising area, which I can testify to personally.
It’s bad enough banning books, but banning theatres?
Originally known as the Jewel, this cinema has always been considered one of the masterworks of architect Ben Schlanger. I don’t think the listing should be removed, though comments relating to intimate sexual matters should be discouraged.
Craigslist is the place for hookups. Let’s keep this site for the original purpose. Some of the old theatres became churches. Others went the other way. But they were part of cinema history so we can’t deny them there space.
Tinsel, this “theater” has long been a seedy dump, with no histoirical value whatsoever, so why not delete the listing for always, if people are using this site for hookups
I thought that discussions of a sexual nature were banned. This listing was long shut down because of that. Do we want it to happen again?
can we meet at your place.jeff leave your email.
Hey Willy, Was there a few weeks ago. Crowded.
HEY JEFF HAVE YOU BEEN AT THE FAIR LATELY LOOKING SEXY? GET BACK TO ME OK.
Yes it is still open,Jeff
I was talking to someone today who lives right near this theater. He says he can’t imagine how it still stays open, as it is almost always dead inside, practically nobody there. Hope the old Jewel doesn’t meet the old bulldozer soon!
Thanks for taking the photo. :)
Thank you, Lost Memory. I should have posted the link myself. I’m so disorganized.
Okay, this is better.
The arcana about the past is one of the unique features of this site and I hope all users with something to contribute will continue to do so, notwithstanding the occasional snarky comment or two.