Embassy Theatre
3208 Fulton Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11208
3208 Fulton Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11208
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Yes Omni, The YMCA was there last time I drove down Jamaica Ave. Highland Park no longer had the chess and checker tables nor the gym bars and swing in the playground. I noticed that while driving by. robbie
Our happy times revolved around the movies. There was the Warwick (closed) the Embassy (closed) & the Adelphi-Gem (closed).For a big time out we would go to Jamaica: The Valencia (?)or the Alden (a dump).Then there was the Brooklyn Paramount (before Sinatra). Finally the Roxy or THe Radio City City Music Hall.robbie; do you know if the Highland Park YMCA is still there.The Y I doubt it but the bldg yes.
Our happy times revolved around the movies. There was the Warwick (closed) the Embassy (closed) & the Adelphi-Gem (closed).For a big time out we would go to Jamaica: The Valencia (?)or the Alden (a dump).Then there was the Brooklyn Paramount (before Sinatra). Finally the Roxy or THe Radio City City Music Hall.robbie; do you know if the Highland Park YMCA is still there.The Y I doubt it but the bldg yes.
robbie dupree, thank you for posting that. That is exactly what has happened on the Ridgewood Theater page (# 4021 on this site)for people from Ridgewood.
Omni, Yes it was before my time, but not my families. I was there from 52-58'. My grandfater owned the house since 1927 and at one time or another, most of my family lived in the house. It was a large 2 story brick with a living space in the attic as well. Our house was in the middle of the block between Warwick and Ashford.
With the demise of all these neighborhoods it is quite a wonderful thing that neighbors can come together once again around the memories of movie houses. They were once the center of the communities and now again allow us to meet and share an all but lost history. Robbie
robbie; This was during the 1930’s probably before your time but uncle Alfred had a black & gold lettered sign on his house saying “Alfred Freckelton Piano Instruction” He lived one house in from the corner of Ashford ST & Arlington Ave.
My childhood home was at 204 arlington avenue, directly accross the street from the Library. It was an big part of my childhood both as a library and also a place to play on the grounds after business hours. My family has countless photo’s of us using the beautiful building as a background. I haven’t seem it in many years but I am sure it is closed now. I used a photo of me as a child for the cover shot of one of my recordings. The photo only shows me sitting in one of the carved seats but I wanted to use it because of the great significance it held for me. Anyone interested can check out the photo on my website. robbiedupree.com Go to the discography section and click on Vintage Volume One. robbie
Yes, that IS sad, and, no I don’t know what’s there now.
At one time there was a great Carnegie Library on the corner of Ashford St & Arlington Ave. It was a beautiful building!I checked out books there when I was 9 or 10 yrs old. The place was quiet with no nonsense. I later was told that it was closed with all the windows boarded up.My uncle Alfred lived across the St & gave piano lessons to young people in the neighborhood.Ive wanted to go back for a look but was told “Dont go there its not safe” Sad! Whats there now?
At one time there was a great Carnegie Library on the corner of Ashford St & Arlington Ave. It was a beautiful building!I checked out books there when I was 9 or 10 yrs old. The place was quiet with no nonsense. I later was told that it was closed with all the windows boarded up.My uncle Alfred lived across the St & gave piano lessons to young people in the neighborhood.Ive wanted to go back for a look but was told “Dont go there its not safe” Sad! Whats there now?
I remember a Greek-American Colony restaurant in Ridgewood, Queens, on the northwest side of Cornelia Street, a few doors northeast of Myrtle Avenue, from 1964 to about 1970.
“A young lady was getting ready for bed with the blinds turned the WRONG way!!”
That reminds me of my dad’s favorite joke :
“I couldn’t sleep at all last night. The shade was up all night !”
“Why didn’t you pull it down ?”
“The shade was up across the street !”
I was friends in the latter 1980’s with Abe and Minerva Diaz, who lived over the bar at Jamaica and Norwood Avenues.
Their was a “wise guy” bar on Crescent and Fulton next to the Post Office called The Waikiki. Paulie Vario owner The Fountainbleu florist on Pine and Fulton. Anyone know if these are still open in some form or when they closed ? robbie
Sometimes we would go to the Valencia a real treat. I loved to stop & look at the fountains in the lobby then the moving stars over the audience.We would walk by Weismantels Showboat never went there I was too young & my folks couldnt afford it. There was the Norwood Palace a shot & beer place on the SW corner of Norwood & Fulton.One night my Dad got off the el after the 4 to 12 shift at Norwood Ave looked across Fulton & saw the whole crowd out on the sidewalk looking up at an apt across the st A young lady was getting ready for bed with the blinds turned the WRONG way!! That story was good for a thigh slapper for years to come.Onni
Don’t remember Schwartzapfels Baby carriage shop but do remember Embassy Carriage between Richmond and Logan on Fulton. Grey’s variety store on Fulton and Richmond is gone as is Tilotta’s on Fulton and Crescent. Mom used to work at Colony Restaurant on Norwood and Fulton during the early 60’s. It was a great Greek restaurant then. Guess that’s gone, too. Warwick and Arlington was going down at least 10 years ago. Haven’t been down that far in years. Passed Lane awhile back and it’s still the same armed camp that it was the early 60’s when I went there. Couldn’t wait to get out of there. Charlie
Chastom; Thank you for the neighborhood update! I would like to walk around the old place but not alone as I would be a mark.We lived on Chestnut St,Logan St & Highland PL. I can imagine the horror show that FK Lane is now.BTW John Gotti went there.Does anyone remember Schwartzapfels Baby carriage store on Logan & Fulton Sts? Or was that just too long ago? Im 77 now!!I would love to see that big old pile that we lived in near the corner of Warwick & Arlington Av. Onni
There isn’t much left of the old neighborhood, except the old Hamburg Bank (now North Fork) and the old drugstores on Fulton St—Mellor’s and Adelphi (not the same owners). The Showboat is a supermarket and the Cypress Hills Swimming Pool is a public school. The little Haven Theater (I know it was a dump) is a junky variety store and even Lewis' of Woodhaven (where you could get anything) is gone. F K Lane is still there, but it’s like an armed camp during the day. I remember people parking their convertible cars with the tops down on those streets and no one would think about touching them. Those were the good old days. We didn’t have VCRs, DVRs or computers, but we made our own fun playing ball in the streets. Charlie.
Thanks for the update. That is all really close to my home. In all my travels I have never met anyone from there at that time period. As you know,the neighborhood broke apart and everyone scattered .Sadly,all the movie theatre’s closed . I have been back a few times but there is hardly a trace of the wonderful times I remember. I am glad that this site offers many shared memories . Robbie
I was born in Bushwick, in Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, 615 Chauncey Street, corner of Broadway, but mostly grew up at 1668 Cornelia Street, near Cypress and Myrtle Avenues, in Ridgewood.
The doctor who delivered me, Joseph Berman, had his office at, I think, 25 Logan Street.
My aunt, my father’s sister, graduated Franklin K. Lane in 1947. She lived with my dad and their parents on Bushwick Avenue at the time, near Pilling Street. Sometime between 1956 and 1963 they moved to 169 Chestnut Street in Cypress Hills. They moved from there to Woodhaven in summer 1968, and lived there the rest of their lives.
In January 1975 I got to know Joe Bettinger of 16 Grant Avenue and Laura Messina of Autumn Avenue. Joe lived at 195 Lincoln Avenue before moving upstate to Saugerties, NY the summer of 1979. I next saw him in May 1980 at the Redemptorist seminary at Suffield, Connecticut, near the Massachusetts border, when he had changed from pharmacy as a career to studying for the Catholic priesthood.
I next saw Joe the summer of 1982 when he was visiting his parents at 16 Grant Avenue. I think he’d already been ordained to the priesthood at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
i was born in 46. st michaels was on liberty and jerome. it was best known for the girls high school but the grade school was right next door. later, we moved to autumn ave and i went to F.K.Lane and attended Blessed Sacrament but sadly, i played hooky at The Logan Pool Hall many Sunday’s … wher did you live etc….robbie
Hi robbie dupree, thanks for joining in the fun ? Were you born in 1955, like me, or are you older ? Where was st.michaels grammar school ? Were you and your family St. Michael’s parishioners, as opposed to Blessed Sacrament and St. Rita’s ?
many great memories for me. i lived on arlington ave. from 55'-63. attended st.michaels grammar school and marched to the embassy many times with classmates and the nuns to see movies like The Robe and Miracle at Fatima..school trips..also, so many saturday matinee’s..love to hear from anyone from that time…robbiedupree
More power to you, onni ! May you live another eighty to ninety years !
I went to the Embassy during the 1930’s also the Warwick and the Gem formally the Adelphi. The Warwick had a nickname “The Garlic Opera House”.The 2 features plus newsreel & coming attractions were continous giving rise to the announcement “ This is where we came in”.The theaters gave away chinaware sets, a piece at a time. Then you would hear a crash as a dinner plate would slide off some ladys lap.My 80 year old Grandmother would go to the evening show, walk home alone not at all worried about being mugged robbed or murdered!I went to PS65 and St Peters Lutheran Church (services in English & German)A great neighborhood !!!
Those are great movies and great memories, Raym. Thanks for posting them.
As a kid, I remember my mom taking me to see a double feature at the Embassy (1958) of “The BLob” and “I Married a Monster from Outer Space”. The candy counter was always located on the left as you entered the theater. They sold Van Houten Chocolate Bars in 3 flavors, Milk chocolate, Semi-Sweet and Orange. They also sold some great cough drops called “Gem”?. My Dad took me to see “Journey to the Center of the Earth” along with some rock and roll movie with Ray Charles in it. “Requiem For A Heavyweight” played there and I think a movie called “The Last Angry Man”.