RKO Madison Theatre

Thanks, Jayar1. I just finished exploring the Brooklyn photo album on Topix.

Thanks, Lost Memory, Tinseltoes and Bway !

Here’s a great photo looking up Myrtle Ave from the Myrtle Ave and St Nicholas in I guess the 20’s or 30’s:

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My mom told me that my dad helped restore the organ back in the early or mid 60s and even got a chance to play it before a movie showing once.

WOW. That’s all I have to say. While the 1986 photo is sad, it gave me chills seeing it again, as I remember walking past there all the time when i was a teenager at that time, and that is EXACLY how I remember it….with the Woolworth still next door, the Carvel, and yes, of course, Odd Lot. Panzer, I agree, from my memory, the auditorium of the Madison was still somewhat intact when that photo was taken. I do remember the Odd Lot, and the outer and inner lobbies were already ripped up, and used as the store, and perhaps part of the auditorium, but there was a fake wall through the building, and I think they still used the auditorium for storage. The store probably only occupied the part of the auditorium under the balcony, and the inner and outer lobbies.
It was about 3 or 4 years later, when Odd Lot closed, that the theater was destroyed when the new owners that got it ready for the Busy Bee Flea Market Compartment stores destroyed the place. When it was Odd Lot, I also still remember the floor somewhat sloping. That wasn’t leveled until about 1989 or 1990 either.

Definitely Odd Lot.

Wow, that is excellent. Really gives a feeling for what an old-time marquee presentation was like. The crowd doesn’t hurt either.

Doing the same Bway.

LOL Peter I was thinking more of going to a turntable with a piece of slate and use a parrot beak to etch on it like on the Flintstones.

We all have to lighten up in here. We all have our passions for what CT is here for. Living in Brooklyn for most of my life I have been in a good deal of the theatres where I have posted. I never got to see the Madison while it was functioning as a Movie Palcae but I was in there right after it was closed and was in awww from the site of such a place. However my tour was short lived after i was spotted by a doberman and wound up in a bathroom just above the marquee. I posted about this once before. Oh if could have been saved.

Well I just came home and made sure I bought my Mega Millios Lotto ticket and hope to wake up tomorrow as the winner of $185 Million. I could think of some real easte I could probobly pick up cheap but the resoration would be something else. It’s really funny when you look or think about it. It took $25 Million to restore Fords Theatre in DC which is ½ the size of the Paradise $25 million and Paradise was in really bad shape. Then there is the $15 Million for Beacon. I have seen pictures of the Kings and I highly doubt that $25 million would be enough to bring it back. Meanwhile there is trouble in Paradise and no onne knows if and when it will reopen.

Grrrrrr ok now that is twice I have tried to post in here and twice it said I was logged in before I have submitted and was again told to log in. This goes to one of the points I mention below about flaws with CT. Good thing I know how to Copy and Paste.

Hey Bob CT and any other site were people come together and post tend to go off topic. Just like any other conversations be it on the internet or real life. I mean from what I have seen from the last few posts in here had absolutely nothing to do with The Madison or any other theatre. I have heard other people say the same thing you have about checking several pages on this site because of the extreme amount of non-theater related posts.

I don’t know why Warren said what he said. The only problem I have ever had with him not personally was that some of his older photobucket links were no longer active and when it was brought up he found the links spoken about and posted new active links to them. I guess everyone has a right to blow off some steam at times.

This is a really great site sespite some of the flaws such as getting e-mails saying someone has responed to your post and it sends an e-mail to everyone in that group even if the response is not to you. Today I received about 16 e-mails and only one of them was a reply to my posting.

But hey this post has got nothing to do with theatres either so maybe I should shoot my hard drive for going off topic. Bad hard drive bad bad. Take that and that and lol.

Have a nice day to all.

I use my name, but compress my last name to a single capital letter.

That doesn’t give Warren or any CT member the right to abuse me or anyone else on CT.

What point was that, Bob F ?