I have been searching for a theatre called the Palace St Nicholas which was showing movies in 1918. I finally found something about it in a 1903 NY Times article.
It was to be built as a playhouse adjoining the West End Theatre property on St. Nicholas Avenue and Hamilton Place. It ran boxing and plays as well as movies and also had an Annex (roof?).
It was built by a sindicate of theatrical and business men and has a frontage of 188 feet on St. Nicholas and 100 feet 11 inches on Hamilton (125th St?).
Louise M. Goldstein (Murray Hill Lyceum), Charles Bimberg, and Archibald Bimberg composed the syndicate who expect the building to be ready by February 1904.
The building style will be free Renaissance and the material Roman buff brick, limestone and terra cotta with a seating capcaity of 1800.
There was a Loew’s Victory on 155th Street and 3rd avenue open in the 40’s that does not appear to be listed here. Does anyone have any info on that one?
I will find out where the Dixie was as I have some old Miami Herald clippings. Do you guys remember the Coral Way, Turnpike, Boulevard, LeJeune, Golden Glades East/West, Miami, North Dade, & 27th Avenue?
I was not a big drive-in fan and the Tropicaire Boulevard, and Golden Glades (STAR WARS – first run) were my only experiences.
Fort Lauderdale had the Hi Way near the airport, possibly the first eleven-plex drive-in in the USA. The Thunderbird Swapshop is still there but the Lakeshore and Davie are gone.
Elwood, all I know is that Jacqueline kept the Carnegie Screening room for several years after Cineplex Odeon took over the larger side. She was eventually bought out when Garth offered her stupid money to pass him the lease. The Screening Room then became Carnegie II.
Was there ever a bypass on 42nd street in the 19th century? There is something similar on 42nd street shown in the latest KING KONG movie. Could it be the old east-west cattle run was still around in the thirties?
Saw a kung fu triple feature here in the early eighties when a film distributor asked me to do a car count. The movies were as interchangeable as porn and the drive-in crowd included many pick-up trucks loaded with migrants workers I assume came from nearby Homestead. Little tubes provided in-car air conditioning for the year round Florida heat and the windshield wipers had to be activated in order to keep the palmetto bugs from blocking the screen.
The premiere reserved seat venue for I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW) is now a church???
I just did a spit take all over my computer!
I have been searching for a theatre called the Palace St Nicholas which was showing movies in 1918. I finally found something about it in a 1903 NY Times article.
It was to be built as a playhouse adjoining the West End Theatre property on St. Nicholas Avenue and Hamilton Place. It ran boxing and plays as well as movies and also had an Annex (roof?).
It was built by a sindicate of theatrical and business men and has a frontage of 188 feet on St. Nicholas and 100 feet 11 inches on Hamilton (125th St?).
Louise M. Goldstein (Murray Hill Lyceum), Charles Bimberg, and Archibald Bimberg composed the syndicate who expect the building to be ready by February 1904.
The building style will be free Renaissance and the material Roman buff brick, limestone and terra cotta with a seating capcaity of 1800.
Is this the LAGREE BAPTIST CHURCH?
The Dodger Stages are now the New World Stages.
Yes, Norelco. I have worked old theatres with faulty electricity, drafty unsealed vents and crap plumbing. Must be the work of aliens.
This was an ABC Florida State Chain Theatre.
Nice shots, Ed!
There was a Loew’s Victory on 155th Street and 3rd avenue open in the 40’s that does not appear to be listed here. Does anyone have any info on that one?
Hey Decatur Dave, that spec sounds like “most stupid concept for a magazine article in history?”
Laffmovie should be added to previous names (1942-1943).
United Artists Twin should be an additional name here. Like it or not, it ran under that name for almost three years.
This must hold the record for most name changes in Manhattan. Following this theatre is like tracing someone on a witness relocation program.
1924 Piccadilly
1925 Warner's
1935 New Yorker
1936 Oriental
1938 Continental
1943 Abbey
1944 Manhattan
1945 Republic
The Dixie Drive I know was on US 1 in Goulds, so Perrine must be the one as those two towns are close.
LeJeune Drive-In, 27th Avenue & LeJeune Road.
Wometco’s 27th Avenue Drive-In, NW 27th & 87th Street
Turnpike Drive-In, NW 27th Avenue & 128th Street
Wometco’s No. Dade Drive-In, 27th Avenue & 171st Street
E.M. Loew’s Miami Drive-In, NW 7th Avenue & 79th STreet
Wometco’s Coral Way Drive-In, SW 24th Street & 70th Avenue
Golden Glades Drive-In, Palmetto EXpressway and 37th Avenue
I also found the No. Andrews, Gulfstream, Arrow, Breezeway, Gold Coast Drive-In
Why the Columbia I & II not a previous name here?
This is all well and nice but did this cinema ever open?
Was it ever anythiong but a newsreel theatre?
Was this ever anything other than a newsreel theatre?
I will find out where the Dixie was as I have some old Miami Herald clippings. Do you guys remember the Coral Way, Turnpike, Boulevard, LeJeune, Golden Glades East/West, Miami, North Dade, & 27th Avenue?
I was not a big drive-in fan and the Tropicaire Boulevard, and Golden Glades (STAR WARS – first run) were my only experiences.
Fort Lauderdale had the Hi Way near the airport, possibly the first eleven-plex drive-in in the USA. The Thunderbird Swapshop is still there but the Lakeshore and Davie are gone.
Elwood, all I know is that Jacqueline kept the Carnegie Screening room for several years after Cineplex Odeon took over the larger side. She was eventually bought out when Garth offered her stupid money to pass him the lease. The Screening Room then became Carnegie II.
Ed, the drive-in on South Dixie Highway was probably the Dixie.
I don’t get it. I joined for free. What are you paying for?
My 1934 Film Daily shows the Sunset at 316 W 125th street
and the 125th street at 112 E. 125th Street.
If this was indeed the 112 site, it was previously known as the Miner’s and the Columbia before its movie days.
Was there ever a bypass on 42nd street in the 19th century? There is something similar on 42nd street shown in the latest KING KONG movie. Could it be the old east-west cattle run was still around in the thirties?
Saw a kung fu triple feature here in the early eighties when a film distributor asked me to do a car count. The movies were as interchangeable as porn and the drive-in crowd included many pick-up trucks loaded with migrants workers I assume came from nearby Homestead. Little tubes provided in-car air conditioning for the year round Florida heat and the windshield wipers had to be activated in order to keep the palmetto bugs from blocking the screen.
Hardbop, the Universal is listed here as MUSIC PALACE.
2 West 59th Street tracks as the Plaza Hotel so it is probably the venue address before it became a theatre with an entrance on Central Park South.
This became the Daitch-Shopwell supermarket Januery 22, 1964.