Comments from PKoch - Cinema Treasures

PKoch commented about RKO Bushwick Theatre on Jan 30, 2007 at 9:55 am

Thank you, Louis Rugani.

PKoch commented about Colonial Theatre on Jan 29, 2007 at 11:09 am

Perhaps Selena Royle and Nova Pilbeam would know.

I won’t go into the udderly bovine implications of a last name like “Mooers”.

I’ll leave it to Fast Eddie.

PKoch commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Jan 29, 2007 at 9:30 am

Yes, aud, and each has a page on this website.

PKoch commented about New Boro Park Theatre on Jan 29, 2007 at 9:21 am

Thanks, bkj !

PKoch commented about Cinemart Cinemas on Jan 29, 2007 at 9:19 am

Yes, PaulNoble, I remember Eddie’s Sweet Shop very well. I last ate there August 2005, before seeing the Tom Cruise “War Of The Worlds” at the CineMart. I had a discussion with the owner / manager about how much better he was doing than Jahn’s in Richmond Hill.

NativeForestHiller, you’re probably right about Eddie’s Sweet Shop.

PKoch commented about Loew's Valencia Theatre on Jan 29, 2007 at 9:13 am

Thanks, Bway ! A pleasant reminder of when I used to “live” on nycsubway.org !

Thanks, Warren, for the anecdotes, and for the link to the newspaper ad.

PKoch commented about RKO Bushwick Theatre on Jan 29, 2007 at 9:08 am

“Room For One More” to be “Buried Alive” in the “Dangerous Ground” of the RKO Bushwick ?

“Room for one more, honey !”

morgue nurse (Arline Sax) to dancer Liz Powell (Barbara Nichols), Twilight Zone episode, “Twenty Two”.

“Room for one more inside, sir …”

William Burroughs, “Naked Lunch”, “Introduction : Deposition : Testimony Concerning A Sickness”

PKoch commented about RKO Bushwick Theatre on Jan 29, 2007 at 9:03 am

Thanks for posting the tragic story, Louis Rugani. What is your source ?

RobertR, thanks for the image.

PKoch commented about Film Forum on Jan 25, 2007 at 9:00 am

Thanks, Lost Memory. What a good little theater to “trip” over, “shockproofed” or not !

PKoch commented about Century's Prospect Theatre on Jan 24, 2007 at 8:26 am

Thanks, Warren. These details are helpful and interesting.

PKoch commented about Loew's Valencia Theatre on Jan 23, 2007 at 7:18 am

Thanks, balloonhedz. There are several similar photos on

www.nycsubway.org

PKoch commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Jan 22, 2007 at 9:54 am

Bway, if they have any patience or sincere interest at all, I think they will be intrigued, rather than scared off, especially if they are ex-Ridgewoodites like ourselves, and will find this page interesting, if not fascinating, rather than monstrous.

PKoch commented about Embassy Theatre on Jan 22, 2007 at 9:31 am

Thanks, MVitale !

The now-gone Decatur Theater, which once stood at 1674 Bway near Dectaur Street in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, and also has a page on this website, was also known as “The Itch” to some of its patrons who have posted on this site.

PKoch commented about RKO Alden Theatre on Jan 22, 2007 at 9:26 am

Indeed !

PKoch commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Jan 22, 2007 at 9:24 am

Cinema Treasures is also mentioned in the “Our Neighborhood The Way It Was” column of the current on-line issue of The Times Newsweekly (former Ridgewood Times).

PKoch commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Jan 22, 2007 at 9:21 am

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Above is a link to further mention of the Ridgewood Theater, and its recent 90-year anniversary in the current on-line issue of The Times Newsweekly (former Ridgewood Times). Included are my and AprilW’s recollections of the collapse of the marquee under snow from the blizzard of February 9th, 1969. Also included is another photo of a trolley car running on Myrtle Avenue towards Richmond Hill, with the Ridgewood Theater and Howard Clothes in the background.

PKoch commented about RKO Alden Theatre on Jan 19, 2007 at 8:28 am

Thanks, Warren, I’ll go to your links, but I’m not spending $ 30 per photo and a 5 to 6 week wait for one photo of a theater. I daresay many others on this site won’t, either.

PKoch commented about RKO Alden Theatre on Jan 19, 2007 at 6:07 am

Thanks, youngnyer1. I’ll look forward to more of these photos.

What have you got for the Ridgewood and RKO Madison Theaters ?

PKoch commented about Loew's Valencia Theatre on Jan 19, 2007 at 6:03 am

Thanks, youngnyer1. I’d like to see more photos from those NYC archives myself.

PKoch commented about New Boro Park Theatre on Jan 18, 2007 at 8:47 am

ERD, thanks for your answer. My understanding is that the Willensky book is a good one. Willensky and I are both Cooper Union graduates.

PKoch commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Jan 17, 2007 at 5:57 am

Perhaps the Wyckoff, Parthenon, Rivoli, Alhambra and both Imperial Theater pages would be a better place for discussing old movies and DVD bargains.

At least we haven’t had Fast Eddie discussing having sex with the corpse of Mae West in the balcony of the RKO Madison for awhile.

Warren’s term of choice was “bilge”, not “drivel”.

PKoch commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Jan 16, 2007 at 12:11 pm

Ciao, BklynJim. Thanks for stopping by.

PKoch commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Jan 16, 2007 at 12:09 pm

Ciao for now, BklynJim. Thanks for stopping by. You’re right, one should shop around to get the best buy for one’s hard-earned Harryhausen buck.

PKoch commented about Loew's 46th Street Theatre on Jan 16, 2007 at 10:28 am

Thanks, Warren.

PKoch commented about Ridgewood Theatre on Jan 16, 2007 at 8:37 am

Understood and agreed, Bway.

All I got to say, mikemovies, is :

HOORAY FOR HARRYHAUSEN !

At $ 43.98, it’s worth it !

Perhaps all this talk of old and obscure films, sci fi and otherwise, best belongs on the “Film Forum” page, because that’s where I and so many other movie buffs have gone time and again to see such films, apart from broadcast and cable TV and home video.