Majestic Theater
494 Seneca Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
494 Seneca Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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The Majestic Theater in the Ridgewood section of Queens, is listed in the American Motion Picture Directory 1914-1915. In the 1945 Film Daily Yearbook, the seating is shown as 550. The Majestic Theater closed sometime in the mid-1950’s.
After standing vacant for almost a decade, the building was purchased in 1964 and converted to a funeral home called Seneca Chapels. It remains a funeral home today.
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I use that Cypress Ave exit at Vermont from the JR Parkway often. Yes, couldn’t imagine it without a light!!
But I really think they are overdoing the traffic lights in Ridgewood. It’s slowly become like manhattan with lights at every corner, which certainly is not necessary…. I mean really, a light at Harmon and Seneca, and many of the other recent ones are just a but overdone….
If you were a pedestrian in Ridgewood or anywhere else in the five boroughs, you might feel differently!
Lost, did you get my email I sent you this morning? If not, send me an email.
I got it Bway. It took me all day to read it. LOL
A 1941 exterior view of the Majestic Theatre can be found on page 49 of the Ridgewood Times’s 100th anniversary issue dated 10/23/08. The marquee has no attractions displayed, suggesting that the Majestic was at least temporarily closed at the time.
Just renewing my email alerts….
Here’s a google street view of the old Majestic Theater:
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Here’s a photo of the Majestic Theater which appeared in last weeks Timesnewsweekly:
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As well as a story to accompany it:
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The Majestic had a pretty nice “classic” cinema marquee, and must have been something to see lit up at night. it appears to have already been closed at the time of this photo though.
Thank you very much Bway for posting those links. The theater photo is a “keeper”! I wonder why there are no movie titles on the marquee. Maybe they only used posters at that time or the theater might have been temporarily closed. I mentioned somewhere on this site about the house to the right of the Majestic that burned down in the 1950s. The land was later used as a parking lot for the factory building to the right of that property. The drugstore seen on the left side of the photo was long gone when I was growing up. It was a barbershop at one time and later a fruit and vegetable store.
If I remember correctly, the marquee for this theater was similar to the marquee on the Grandview Theater. The funeral home must have removed the Majestic name at the top of the building when they did the alterations around 1964. I could go on and on about how the occupants of those buildings and some of the buildings themselves have changed since that photo was taken, but then I would be in trouble for going off topic. :)
You made my day Bway. Thanks again.
I knew you would love this one!
Unfortunately, since the email notifications were reset, unless you check occasionally every theater you are interested in, messages would be missed, but I knew you wouldn’t want to miss this photo!