RKO Madison Theatre
54-30 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
54-30 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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RidgewoodBill — Perhaps you are not familiar with our terms of use. Disagreements are fine, but if you continue to use obscene language and/or personally attack other CT users, we will ban you from this site.
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Cinema Treasures
The Montauk theatre aka the Crescent theatre later became Minsky’s Burlesque. Any cretin should have known that. Leave the research to people who have the mental capacity to handle it.
lostmemory…Did you read the Momart page? I just transferred some info posted by Orlando a while back on the Orpheum’s (Brooklyn) page
concerning the Montmartre (Momart).
lostmemory….The theater that you are looking for is listed on this site as the Momart. It was located near downtown Brooklyn on Fulton Street near Rockwell Place. It was surrounded in the immediate area by the RKO Orpheum, Majestic and Strand theaters. It opened as the Montmartre and changed at a later date for some reason to the Momart.
Perhaps there were too many letters to light up with neon ! !
Another incompetent amongst us. The location of the Ridgewood Lyric theatre will be revealed shortly.
I grew up in the East NY section and there was a Lyric movie theater located on pitkin avenue which I have admitted to this web-site. I have never heard of a another Lyric theater in Ridgewood!
Just came upon this site and I must say it is spectacular. I noticed your impressive research area. As a former Ridgewoodite I have a theatre not on your listing and worthy of your excellent research team. Does anyone remember the Lyric Theatre circa 1916 in Ridgewood?
lostmemory, I think Kreuscher’s arcade was on the southeast corner of Myrtle Avenue and Cornelia Street, where the Rainbow Shops, vitamin store, lingerie store, and E & J Card and Gift are now.
By your definition, it is.
Perhaps it was like the late 19th century Victorian London “cinematograph” in the 1992 film, “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”.
Then he couldn’t budge you from this site for one second.
Good one, lostmemory !
Imagine a derelict, non-functioning movie theater, but which still has seats, and where people go, not to see movies, but to talk about the movies they saw there when the theater DID show movies !
Sort of like the RKO Madison and Ridgewood Theater pages on this site !
Eddie’s the webmaster(shudder) ?
Why not ? Try it and see what feedback you get.
And perhaps there should have been at least one porno theater named the Priapathon !
Warren and lostmemory, with all the discussion above, perhaps it is time to start pages on this site for the Gotham and Amphion Theaters, if you haven’t already done so.
In Greek mythology, Amphion was a son of Zeus and Antiope, twin of Zethus, and husband of Niobe. Together with Zethus, Amphion captured Thebes, and afterwards fortified the city with a wall which was constructed by charming the stones into place, with a lyre given to him by Hermes.
So perhaps the Amphion Theater could have used some help from the mythical hero it was named after !
lostmemory….Just one more bit of trivia on the inimitable Mae. You mentioned above that she played the Jamaica Theater in 1911. There must have been an earlier Jamaica Theater because the one listed on this site was built in 1913. Maybe that is why it was sometimes referred to as the Skouras New Jamaica Theater. Oddly enough Mae did appear on this theater’s stage in the very early 50’s when she toured her revival of “Diamond Lil” on the “subway circuit”.
To further add to the confusion, what is now Jamaica Avenue was once known as either the Jamaica Plank Road or Fulton Street. The Richmond Hill Historical Society website has more details.
Hmmmm – a true lost classic : Mae West in “Inter-racial Time-travelling Grave Robbers From Outer Space” !
Seriously, can nothing be concretely proven or documented for a Gotham Theater, once located at about 2500 Fulton Street, in the Bway Junction – ENY area of Brooklyn, at the (major !) intersection of Broadway, Fulton Street, Alabama Avenue, East New York Avenue, and Jamaica Avenue, at about 1900 ?
Grave Robbers LOL that reminds me that the original name of Plan Nine From Outer Space was Grave Robbers From Outer Space. I would love to see the lineup of theatres where that originally played.
A remarkable two-step process :
1) (relatively easy) : Obtain the mortal remains of Mae West, and take them to 54-30 Myrtle Avenue. It’s not far to get to, from Cypress Hills Cemetery (just take the B-18 bus and then walk a few blocks) although it does involve vandalism, and theft of a corpse, and would look very suspicious.
2)(the hard part) : go back in time at least twenty-seven years to when 54-30 Myrtle Avenue was still the RKO Madison Theater.
Hmmm … grave-robbing time travelers ! What a great sci fi-horror plot line !
Yes. Necrophilia is now present on this page as an alternate lifestyle. There is no longer an RKO Madison with a balcony in Ridgewood, so it will be on the upper level of the Liberty Dept. Store at 54-30 Myrtle Avenue.
lostmemory…Thanks for the vote of confidence.
Hi lostmemory…That’s it, I think I have finally lost my marbles. Sorry for the idiotic posting. I swore I rechecked the Broadway page and saw 700 Broadway and not 912. You are correct. There must have been 2 theaters with the same name and different locations. However, I would imagine that the one at 700 may have closed or agreed to a name change when the much larger one was built.
lostmemory….You may have stumbled on something. The Broadway, which Loew’s took over in 1915 was a far cry from what could be considered a nickelodeon. Perhaps, one was on the site, which was then razed and then the much larger Broadway was built. Does anyone know when the Broadway wa built??
Peter – the Empire, Monroe, Colonial and DeKalb theaters were too far for me to adventure to – the Gates or the Madison were as far as I would go.
My mom would take me to the Alhambra every Saturday for the serials, and the movies – that was in the early 40’s. I saw “Song of the South” there. She used to collect the plates that were given out every week. It was converted to an A&P or Bohack sometime in the early 50’s.
The Grove on Wilson and Jefferson was where we went after the Alhambra closed. I saw 10 million BC there on Sep 28, 1947 – remember it well because my brother was born that day and they sent me to the movies with neighbors so I didn’t know what was happening – it was a rude awakening to come home and find out I was not an only child anymore.