Thanks, Bway, good points, all. Even though you can’t imagine a theater on that small trianglar piece of real estate, please remember how small a lot the nearby Monroe Theatre once occupied.
I, too, would love to see a photo of it while it was still there.
Perhaps it’s time to scrutinize the older images of the RKO Bushwick to try and find the old Mini-Madison still intact and showing movies next door.
Thanks, George, for the explanation of your last name. So it was shortened from Toborski ? Cool. I am Polish on my mother’s side. Her maiden name was Rakowski.
I thought you might have gotten part of your posting “handle” from “Tobor The Eighth Man”.
Incidentally, our English word “robot” comes from a Czech or Polish word meaning “worker” or “work”. I remember my Polish grandmother saying “roboti” (sp ?) as the Polish for “work”.
She emigrated from Poland to the USA after the Titanic (1912) but before the Lusitania (1915), but not on a luxury liner.
See also the famous play “R.U.R. : Rossum’s Universal Robots”.
Leon, BAM is not far away at 30 Lafayette Avenue, between Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street. I was last there to see “Psycho” on Saturday July 15 2006.
George, I’ll keep in mind your remark about the Fox Theatre in St. Louis. It looked like a beautiful theatre in the 1987 film “Chuck Berry : Hail ! Hail ! Rock And Roll !”.
Not to be confused with the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, where Chuck Berry had his 60th birthday concert, going on 22 years ago …
Yes, why not call it the Brooklyn Fox ? What’s happened to Warren ? I haven’t seen any posts by him for awhile.
No George, no relation to Ed Koch, although my then-fiancee, now wife, got so tired of being asked seventeen years ago, she started saying, “Oh yeah, Uncle Ed’s coming to the wedding !”
My father met Ed Koch in the streets of Ridgewood 31 years ago when he was campaigning.
“This meeting of the Swingin' Soiree is now in session.”
Lost Memory, I"m SO glad you said that ! You sent me the sound byte of it privately four years ago ! Thanks !
Murray The K vs. Brian Epstein as The Fifth Beatle ?
Thanks, Bway, for the link. Good to see what Michael Perlman looks like.
I’ve been to the Moondance (Kirsten Dunst in “Spider Man”) but not to the Cheyenne Diner. I hope the Square Diner (Varick and Leonard) doesn’t risk closing. I’ve been eating there for 26 ½ years now.
Thanks for the link, Lost Memory. I remember reading and printing out that article. Perhaps much of that electric equipment shown in still up there in the projection room.
Bway, have you e-mailed the CT management about correcting the intro on this page for the Madison ?
Bway, your dad’s story about the movie star who nonchalantly walked into the Madison from the subway, nonchalantly and unannounced, is like my dad’s story about Al Jolson doing the same, my dad meeting Jolson, and getting free tickets from Jolson for his show. My dad remembers Jolson bringing the house down with “Mammy !”
Actors running up and down the aisles scaring people during a horror movie …. Film Forum in lower Manhattan (57 Watts Street) did stuff like that for “The Tingler” …. near the end of the film, there is a scene when The Tingler is supposed to be loosed in a movie theater, and the audience is told it needs to scream, scream, SCREAM FOR THEIR LIVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And, of course, for the fun of it, the audience screams their lungs out !!!
I’m trying to think what could have been done in person for “The Exorcist” when it was shown at the Madison in summer 1976.
Free barf bags, like for “Mark Of The Devil”, in 1972 ?
A dummy of Reagan in the outer lobby with a revolving head, spewing vomit ?
I’ve seen “Follow the bouncing ball” musical cartoons on TV when I was a small kid (about 5 or 6) but I don’t think I ever saw any in a theater.
Yeah, too bad your dad tossed those old photos. They’d be worth an Internet mint now !
Thanks for these facts, Bway and Lost Memory. Interesting that the two Madison Theatres never operated at the same time.
I should have known from the 1410 Bway address what’s there now, without having to ask, or Google it.
Thanks, Bway, good points, all. Even though you can’t imagine a theater on that small trianglar piece of real estate, please remember how small a lot the nearby Monroe Theatre once occupied.
I, too, would love to see a photo of it while it was still there.
Perhaps it’s time to scrutinize the older images of the RKO Bushwick to try and find the old Mini-Madison still intact and showing movies next door.
Thanks, Bway. Good work, as usual. Would you please e-mail me the photos ? Photobucket is blocked at my PC. Thanks.
Thanks, Warren.
Good comment, Lost Memory !
What’s the Madison Theater building (1410 Bway) in use as, now ?
Wow ! The “non-RKO” Madison Theatre !
Thanks, J.F. Lundy. The “presidential” theatres ?
I’m mildly surprised that the zip is not 11201.
George Tobor, please post your private e-mail address here if you wish to continue your conversation with me in private. Thanks.
Please don’t take the Lord’s name in vain, saps. Thanks.
You’re most welcome, my friend.
Change to Brooklyn Fox ? I recommend you contact the CT management.
Perhaps “robot” could mean “automaton” in Polish, rather than a Horn and Hardart “automat” restaurant. Is that what you meant ?
Thanks, George, for the explanation of your last name. So it was shortened from Toborski ? Cool. I am Polish on my mother’s side. Her maiden name was Rakowski.
I thought you might have gotten part of your posting “handle” from “Tobor The Eighth Man”.
Incidentally, our English word “robot” comes from a Czech or Polish word meaning “worker” or “work”. I remember my Polish grandmother saying “roboti” (sp ?) as the Polish for “work”.
She emigrated from Poland to the USA after the Titanic (1912) but before the Lusitania (1915), but not on a luxury liner.
See also the famous play “R.U.R. : Rossum’s Universal Robots”.
Thank you all for your comments. Mike, I’ll do what I can with the petition link as you’ve suggested.
Geroge Tobor (“Robot” deliberately spelled backwards, as in “Tobot The Eighth Man” ?) thanks for the explanation of Murray The K and Alan Freed.
Thanks, John D. and Bway.
You’re most welcome, Mike. I only wish there was more I could do for the Ridgewood Theatre.
Leon, BAM is not far away at 30 Lafayette Avenue, between Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street. I was last there to see “Psycho” on Saturday July 15 2006.
George, I’ll keep in mind your remark about the Fox Theatre in St. Louis. It looked like a beautiful theatre in the 1987 film “Chuck Berry : Hail ! Hail ! Rock And Roll !”.
You’re welcome, Mike. Good of you to “check in” here. Thank YOU for your positive attitude and hope.
Not to be confused with the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, where Chuck Berry had his 60th birthday concert, going on 22 years ago …
Yes, why not call it the Brooklyn Fox ? What’s happened to Warren ? I haven’t seen any posts by him for awhile.
No George, no relation to Ed Koch, although my then-fiancee, now wife, got so tired of being asked seventeen years ago, she started saying, “Oh yeah, Uncle Ed’s coming to the wedding !”
My father met Ed Koch in the streets of Ridgewood 31 years ago when he was campaigning.
“This meeting of the Swingin' Soiree is now in session.”
Lost Memory, I"m SO glad you said that ! You sent me the sound byte of it privately four years ago ! Thanks !
Murray The K vs. Brian Epstein as The Fifth Beatle ?
Fab listeners, we may never know !
What a Jewish question for Yom Kippur !
OK.
To the best of my knowledge, the RKO Madison showed its last film around Halloween 1977, going on thirty-one years ago.
Instead of “Diner Man”, how about “Movie Man” ?
Thanks, Bway, for the link. Good to see what Michael Perlman looks like.
I’ve been to the Moondance (Kirsten Dunst in “Spider Man”) but not to the Cheyenne Diner. I hope the Square Diner (Varick and Leonard) doesn’t risk closing. I’ve been eating there for 26 ½ years now.
Thanks for the link, Lost Memory. I remember reading and printing out that article. Perhaps much of that electric equipment shown in still up there in the projection room.
Bway, have you e-mailed the CT management about correcting the intro on this page for the Madison ?
Bway, your dad’s story about the movie star who nonchalantly walked into the Madison from the subway, nonchalantly and unannounced, is like my dad’s story about Al Jolson doing the same, my dad meeting Jolson, and getting free tickets from Jolson for his show. My dad remembers Jolson bringing the house down with “Mammy !”
Actors running up and down the aisles scaring people during a horror movie …. Film Forum in lower Manhattan (57 Watts Street) did stuff like that for “The Tingler” …. near the end of the film, there is a scene when The Tingler is supposed to be loosed in a movie theater, and the audience is told it needs to scream, scream, SCREAM FOR THEIR LIVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And, of course, for the fun of it, the audience screams their lungs out !!!
I’m trying to think what could have been done in person for “The Exorcist” when it was shown at the Madison in summer 1976.
Free barf bags, like for “Mark Of The Devil”, in 1972 ?
A dummy of Reagan in the outer lobby with a revolving head, spewing vomit ?
I’ve seen “Follow the bouncing ball” musical cartoons on TV when I was a small kid (about 5 or 6) but I don’t think I ever saw any in a theater.
Yeah, too bad your dad tossed those old photos. They’d be worth an Internet mint now !
Thanks, Bway.