Commodore Cinemas

Thanks, anniegirl. I haven’t seen or spoken with Eric for awhile, but I can reach him easily enough through work.

I sometimes have lunch on Friday with an even earlier friend from parochial and prep school (Grades 1 through 12).

I hope your visit to your old neighborhood next month goes well.

Thanks for the condolences for my friend’s death and for the lunch invitation.

I realized over lunch that I should have said, the older of my Lefferts Blvd. friends, Ron Kloot, died. The younger one (Eric) is still very much alive and well in Florida.

Thanks for all the details, anniegirl. My cousin lives on Mastic Avenue in Shirley.

I don’t know if my friend knew that deli on Lefferts Blvd. I can’t ask him now, because he died in the mid 1990’s.

ok Peter koch….We love on Lama Drive which is South of Montauk Highway in Shirley. My husband and I sold our house in North Shirley and moved into a Townhouse Community for 3 years, then our Daughter and Son i Law just purchased a house in Lama Drive and we have taken up household with them…..All good…..We have a 18 year-old daughter in Suffolk Community College now so it is convenient for travel for her……..Oh well. We were just in Dutchess County last week.. My husband and I went to a small farm in New Paltz across from the College…..It’s great upstate….We usually go to Lake George once every year to visit friends…….. Talk to you soon about our common interest MOVIES and Trivia and Such…..anniegirl

Dear PKOCH
Are you from Kew Gardens? My Aunt Fran moved there first because she wanted a change….So we all moved to Kew Gardens after her and stayed there for 25 years. Then I bought a house on Long Island in Shirley….and have been here ever since.,..and You? anniegirl If You want, you can e-mail me at .,…and all you guys who love the movies if you wish………anniegirl

Thanks anniegirl for your reply.

Dear Poch, I moved to Kew Gardens after my entire family moved there. My Aunt and Uncle moved to Austin Street near Lefferts Blvd first, then my other Aunt moved to Kew Gardens Road ( she still lives there) then we moved to 129th Street and Metropolitan Ave..So we can all be close to one another..We all moved from Williamsburgh.
Dear Panzer 65, My only memories of the Republic were Saturday afternoons at that moviehouse when not at the Commodore…..anniegirl

Anniegirl, why did you move to Kew Gardens in 1973 ?

As well as Anniegirl, of course.

anniegirl and Pkoch,
I took a look at the Republic page, listed at 402 Keap St.,and the architect was Eugene DeRosa, the same designer of the fabled RKO Madison. I wanted to learn more about this theater, but was dismayed to see no postings.Which year did it close?

Dear PKoch
I hung out there around 1960-1962..did you know the Brown Sisters Dolly and Theresa and their brother Billy or as he was known as Bubba Brown..All irish folks…also the Dietz sisters Tina and Donna they lived on the North Side near Bedford..The Browns lived on Bedford Ave near North 5th Street closer to the Park…Sometime later on we went to a place called Medford’s Bar and Pizza Joint on Metropolitan and Bedford Ave….We sometimes would hang out in Daisy’s Bar on Bedford and North 7th Street when at age 18 at the time you could actually go into a bar…We went to that Burger place only once….Did they also serve breakfast and lunch there? and were they on the corner of North 7th and Bedford. If so than that is the place we ate in a few times….Anniegirl

Dear P.Koch. I know there is a page, just a thought while I was on the Commodore site…….and yes I used to go to the meserole while in Greenpoint….Do you remember Van Dolans Ice Cream parlor on Manhattan and Bedford Ave?????I used to go there when I was 16 years old and hung out with friends in Greenpoint….Oh what fun days they were………anniegirl