Ridgewood Theatre
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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Ah yes, the Ridgewood Savings Bank. A building almost pretty enough to be a theater….
Mark W., I was paying Monica H a compliment, not asking her for a date.
Hey now… This isn’t a dating service ;–)
AGAIN,YOU’RE MOST WELCOME, MONICA ! HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND !
Awww thanks Peter!
YOU’RE MOST WELCOME, MONICA ! HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND !
P.S. I WAS IN RIDGEWOOD THIS MORNING, BUT AT RIDGEWOOD SAVINGS BANK, NOT THE RIDGEWOOD THEATER. I AM THERE ONCE A MONTH.
I thought of you on the way from Ridgewood, in to work in lower Manhattan today, because of all the pretty young women I saw on the M train.
THANKS PETER!
Thank you, Monica ! I think you’ve got a good site, and I hope you keep adding to it, and improving it !
Warren, the Imperial Theater was at Irving and Dekalb Avenues in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. My Uncle John, who just turned 83 this past Tuesday, June 29th, saw the Lugosi “Dracula” there as a boy of eight when it first came out. He lived nearby at 412 Harman Street. About a dozen years later, returning home from WW II military service with the Signal Corps in North Africa, he found that the Imperial had become a Robert Hall clothing store, and went there for some needed new civilian clothing.
Oh By the way, if any of you guys have pics to share, you can send the to me at , or , and I’ll post them up.
Thanks!
—Monica H.
Hey Peter K, Warren, Bway, JasonM and everyone else. I just wanted to let you know that I completely renovated my site about the Ridgewood. I have added new images and links on there, and I’ll keep updating it. Let me know what you think.
http://hometown.aol.com/mharb64560/THEATRE.html
Enjoy!!
— Monica H.
The store on the corner of Madison Street and Myrtle Avenue was a furniture store called Triangle Furniture when I was growing up in the 60’s so if someone knows it was a furniture store from the 70’s I can tell you it was in the ‘60’s also. I lived at 1675 Madison and would pass the store everyday.
Anyone remember Mary Vasko from St. Brigid’s? Became a New York Telephone Operator at Fairview and Gates and later a Nurse at Wyckoff Heights Hospital.
I should have added that it’s Grove Street, one block northwest of Linden Street, that closely intersects Irving and Myrtle Avenues, leaving no room for a curbed sidewalk “triangle”, only dust and debris around Myrtle Avenue el pillars. I remember from summer 1967 that the red traffic light there facing northwest on Irving Avenue was, or seemed, especially long.
Bway (Chris), the Cinema Tour list of Brooklyn theaters that I printed on April 22, 2004, thanks to your help, does not list an “Irving Theater”. As you have probably already realized, Irving Avenue is not “parallel” to Myrtle Avenue, but is at a near 45 degree angle to it, as are all the northwest-southeast avenues of Bushwick and Ridgewood, from Broadway to Onderdonk Avenue, as are the southwest to northeast named streets. Onderdonk is the “last” (the most northerly) to intersect Myrtle Avenue. Woodward’s east end
is at Catalpa Avenue, and Fairview and Grandview Avenues' east ends are at Forest Avenue.
I am familiar with the triangle formed by Irving, Linden and Myrtle, and the gas station thereon. I think there’s a live poultry market
nearby also.
Since, 1525 is a “Brooklyn” address, and it is on the Brooklyn side of Wyckoff Ave. The address still exists (unlike the Ridgewood and the Madison Theaters which were put into the Queens numbering system). 1525 Myrtle Ave, the site of the Irving theater, now has a listing of “Jasco Gas and Quickmart”….so I guess this answers our question as to what happened to the Irving theater…a gas station now sits on the site. It was at near where Irving, Linden, and Myrtle Ave’s all meet, along the Myrtle Ave El.
Did the 595 seat “Irving Theater” ever play movies?….if it did, I guess we should add it to the site.
Wait a minute, I think I am still confused. I forgot about the “Irving Theater” in all this!!! If that was actually on the opposite side of the street from the Madison, where the heck was the Irving theater!?
If the Madison was 1562 Myrtle Ave, and the Irving was 1525 Myrtle Ave (both in the old Brooklyn numbering system, it appears that the Irving would be south of the Madison (because I think, but not sure, even in the Brooklyn numbering system, the numbers got higher as they went north). So that would mean that the irving was south of Wyckoff Ave, and along the el. it couldn’t be too far though from the intersection of Wyckoff and Myrtle.
I would be interesed to know where the Irving theater was now that this was brought up.
Warren, I think I figured out the confusion. I read the thread at queensboard.com, and your post there actually clued me into the confusion of VG Nichols furniture. You mentioned that many old stores had fancy marquees, even though they had nothing to do with a theater. That got me to remember VG Nichols having a marquee back in the 70’s. I think it has since been removed (can’t remember), but it made me remember a photograph of the store on
http://www.queenspix.com
If you click that link, click Ridgewood, and then page 8, there will be a photo on top of the V.G. Nichols furniture store building when it was “Triangle Furniture in the 1940’s, and low and behold….a fancy marquee. That’s where the confusion comes in, and the fact that VG Nichols is on the corner of Madison St and Myrtle accidentally brought the Madison Theater into all this.
I don’t have a password at queensboard, but if you want to solve the mystery there for Andy over there….
The Madison Theater is NOT V.G.Nichols Furiture store, although it is on the corner of Madison St and Myrtle (on the same side of Myrtle as the Ridgewood theater). I think the confusion is because the Madison Theater is not that near to Madison St. I don’t believe the furniture store was ever a theater, and it certainly isn’t in the Madison theater building, which is further down Myrtle near Wyckoff Ave, on the other side of Myrtle. The Madison Theater is and has been for quite a while the “Liberty Dept Store”. There are not that many businesses that have occupied the Madison since it was a theater. After the Madison theater burned it became “Consumers”. Then in the late mid 80’s, it became “Odd Lot”. Then the building was empty for a year or so, and it became the Liberty Dept Store in the early 90’s, and remains that to this day.
VG Nicols Furniture is on the corner of Madison St and Myrtle, and has been there since the 70’s. As far as I know, that building was never a theater (and it doens’t look like a theater either). It looks like your typical older “apartment over stores” type of building.
I believe Irving Ave runs parallel to Myrtle Ave, on the side that the “Madison” theater is on (even numbers). The odd numbers are on the Ridgewood Theater side, and that is the wrong side of Myrtle Ave to get close to Irving Ave. But who knows, the Madison Theater does not touch near to Madison Ave. Woodbine St is the cross street for the Madison, and then it’s another whole block away till you get to Madison St, so who knows……
Warren, since you have definitely identified the name as the Irving Theater, would it not be reasonable to figure that it was located on Myrtle Avenue near Irving Avenue, which is the next street past Wyckoff Avenue going towards Brooklyn? Is the address 55-05 Myrtle Avenue near Irving Avenue?
The Parthenon was located at 329 Wyckoff Avenue near Myrtle Avenue. Perhaps Warren is looking for a theater which may have been known as the Irving, Erwin (No, I wasn’t named after a theater!) or Irwin Theater. My mother spoke about it on occasion as she and my father had attended German language films there in the late 1930’s. Whether the theater lasted into the war years, when all of the German language prints were confiscated, or after I do not know. However, I do know that after the war and during the 1950’s that the only German language theater in the Ridgewood area was the Wagner Theater on the corner of Wyckoff Ave and Stockholm Street.
Not sure of it’s address but Parthenon was located close to Ridgewood, close by the EL.
Hi My name Is Jorge,
I was an Usher at the RidgeWood not to long ago. I still have acess to the place. So if there are any questions or Pictures you might want, please do not hesistat to ask. My E-mail address is
Wow and that theatre didn’t close down either. the was one recently in Manhattan but the patrons gun went off and he injured himself during a screening at the AMC EMPIRE MULTIPLEX on 42nd st. That didn’t lead to a closing I guess because it was isolated and the patron injured himself.
Interesting. Thankfully, it didn’t lead to the Ridgewood’s demise, although it could used to be closed for a few months for some renovation work, the theater was terribly in need of it already many years ago.
It’s not unique to just Brooklyn theaters though to have shootings. Out in Commack at National Amusement’s “Multiplex Cinemas” there was a shootout some years ago in the lobby. It may have even been drive-by shootings.