It appears this theater is in it’s final days, from what I heard, the housing development for the site is approved, will begin as soon as the theater closes.
I also saw that movie, and I believe it was also at the Oasis. I saw lots of movies at the Ridgewood also while it was still one screen, but probably saw the most at the Oasis. Of course, once the Ridgewood was the only game in town in the 80’s, I saw many there too.
Lostmemory, did you get the email I sent you last week? I don’t know if I have your correct email, but it didn’t bounce back, so I think it may have gone through….
Peter, it’s an ad for a whole bunch of Disney films to be shown during the summer of 75 at the Oasis. The Oasis always seemed to have a lot of Disney Movies….my mother used to always take me there, and I have seen a lot of the Disney Movies at the Oasis, probably because the Oasis always showed a lot of them.
I saw some at the RIdgewood also, like Pinnochio, but most were at the Oasis. I don’t remember ever seeing a Disney movie at the Madison.
I think you can even pick up Newsday in Manhattan if you want to…. I don’t know if they have different editions for different areas. I know they used to. If you got one particular edition, that could be the reason it doesn’t list everything.
As for the comments on the condition of the Ridgewood, unless someone has been there recently for a movie, I don’t see how anyone can comment on the condition.
While I am sure the Ridgewood isn’t the cleanest place inside (heck it wasn’t even when I used to go there in the 80’s)….but I am sure a lot of the comments on it are just a bit exagerated.
I didn’t know where else to post this, but since this theater’s cross street is Fort Hamilton Parkway, I figured I would ask here.
Does anyone know what this building in the link from forgotten NY was before the roller rink? It sure looks like an old theater, but don’t know where to begin to look for it. It is at the intersection of Fort Hamilton Parkway and 60th.
Here’s the description the forgotten NY site gives:
[i]In my youth I would take hundreds of bus rides on the B16 (Fort Hamilton Pkway) route and would always pass this building on FHP and 60th Street. In the 60s, and prior, it was home to the Rogers car dealership and later, in the 1980s, United Skates of America had a franchise here (Brooklyn’s last roller rink, Bed-Stuy’s Empire, closed in April 2007). Currently, the building houses a couple of wholesalers.
Was the building ever a theater?
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But interestingly, the ad right next to it says that the Ridgewood, Parthenon, Oasis, Gledwood, and Alhambra are all “healthily air cooled”. I guess it’s what the Madison considered “real” air cooling.
It closed in the late 80’s to movies, so I dunno when the UA name began to be used. I don’t remember it ever being called “Prudential Patchogue” or “UA Patchogue”, but that doesn’t mean it may not have been used. It may have been called just straight “Patchogue Theater” obviously at least for many years, as obviously “Ward and Glynne” was dropped decades before it became the Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts….
I have got to get a photo of the old Rialto site. I passed by the other day, and WOW, there are luxury condos or something going up on the site, it looks fabulous, especially because South Ocean Ave was desolate right there for so long.
I could have sworn I have seen it in ads for at least the Bushwick Theater, but I could be mistaken. I seem to recall something on the marquee of the Bushwick Theater from the 30’s saying “Women in Bondage” or something, but that could have meant something else in the 30’s.
Unfortunately, the prices in Bushwick are “cheap” compared to many other parts of the city, so that’s why it’s becoming a hot market. That and it’s proximity to transportation, with both the L and J/M lines running right through Bushwick. It’s basically been a movement along the Canarsie line. It began in the East Village in Manhattan, crossed over the East River into Williamsburg and Greenpoint, and now is progressing into Bushwick, and probably Ridgewood.
Panzer, thanks so much for the comments…Those were my posts you were referring to…and you sound just like I did walking around that store. I also saw that missing ceiling tile (and only seeing dark air above, or peaking into rooms on the sides….
Did you see the door upstairs, a door that if opened I thought would look right to the stage from the balcony. Unfortunately , it was closed when I was up there…..
Your experience sounds similar to mine….I also found NOTHING of the past there, aside from the no nondescript stairway, and the curve of the balcony. That’s it.
GREAT photo….only thing is, they took some creative license…..where’s the Broadway El?
This is exactly the way I remember the theater in it’s final decades passing by it on J or M trains. The place was in shambles by the 90’s. You could look inside those coupola windows right from the platform. My only regret is that I didn’t take any photos when they were tearing it down….The last wall to go was the procenimu arch wall, and it stood exposed to the elements, a cornitian column, and even with a chandelier swinging in the wind….
Anyone know of any interior phtoos available, historic or later years?
It appears this theater is in it’s final days, from what I heard, the housing development for the site is approved, will begin as soon as the theater closes.
I also saw that movie, and I believe it was also at the Oasis. I saw lots of movies at the Ridgewood also while it was still one screen, but probably saw the most at the Oasis. Of course, once the Ridgewood was the only game in town in the 80’s, I saw many there too.
Lostmemory, did you get the email I sent you last week? I don’t know if I have your correct email, but it didn’t bounce back, so I think it may have gone through….
Peter, it’s an ad for a whole bunch of Disney films to be shown during the summer of 75 at the Oasis. The Oasis always seemed to have a lot of Disney Movies….my mother used to always take me there, and I have seen a lot of the Disney Movies at the Oasis, probably because the Oasis always showed a lot of them.
I saw some at the RIdgewood also, like Pinnochio, but most were at the Oasis. I don’t remember ever seeing a Disney movie at the Madison.
I think you can even pick up Newsday in Manhattan if you want to…. I don’t know if they have different editions for different areas. I know they used to. If you got one particular edition, that could be the reason it doesn’t list everything.
As for the comments on the condition of the Ridgewood, unless someone has been there recently for a movie, I don’t see how anyone can comment on the condition.
While I am sure the Ridgewood isn’t the cleanest place inside (heck it wasn’t even when I used to go there in the 80’s)….but I am sure a lot of the comments on it are just a bit exagerated.
I of course it doesn’t mean that it was ever a theater….however, I can’t believe this building was built for a “car dealership”….
I didn’t know where else to post this, but since this theater’s cross street is Fort Hamilton Parkway, I figured I would ask here.
Does anyone know what this building in the link from forgotten NY was before the roller rink? It sure looks like an old theater, but don’t know where to begin to look for it. It is at the intersection of Fort Hamilton Parkway and 60th.
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Here’s the description the forgotten NY site gives:
[i]In my youth I would take hundreds of bus rides on the B16 (Fort Hamilton Pkway) route and would always pass this building on FHP and 60th Street. In the 60s, and prior, it was home to the Rogers car dealership and later, in the 1980s, United Skates of America had a franchise here (Brooklyn’s last roller rink, Bed-Stuy’s Empire, closed in April 2007). Currently, the building houses a couple of wholesalers.
Was the building ever a theater?
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But interestingly, the ad right next to it says that the Ridgewood, Parthenon, Oasis, Gledwood, and Alhambra are all “healthily air cooled”. I guess it’s what the Madison considered “real” air cooling.
Haha, I am sure you meant the “eastern corner of Cooper and BROADWAY”….
As for the Colonial, now the Wayside Baptist Church, I guess they chime the chimes just like any church on the hour?
Walt Disney’s “The Shaggy DA”….
Well, I said, I was a little kid!
Holy Crap!!! I saw that there as a kid when that was playing there at that time! I remember it like it was yesterday….
Pkoch, your computer won’t let you access photobucket?
I heard the whole block will be torn down.
It closed in the late 80’s to movies, so I dunno when the UA name began to be used. I don’t remember it ever being called “Prudential Patchogue” or “UA Patchogue”, but that doesn’t mean it may not have been used. It may have been called just straight “Patchogue Theater” obviously at least for many years, as obviously “Ward and Glynne” was dropped decades before it became the Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts….
I have got to get a photo of the old Rialto site. I passed by the other day, and WOW, there are luxury condos or something going up on the site, it looks fabulous, especially because South Ocean Ave was desolate right there for so long.
I could have sworn I have seen it in ads for at least the Bushwick Theater, but I could be mistaken. I seem to recall something on the marquee of the Bushwick Theater from the 30’s saying “Women in Bondage” or something, but that could have meant something else in the 30’s.
Unfortunately, the prices in Bushwick are “cheap” compared to many other parts of the city, so that’s why it’s becoming a hot market. That and it’s proximity to transportation, with both the L and J/M lines running right through Bushwick. It’s basically been a movement along the Canarsie line. It began in the East Village in Manhattan, crossed over the East River into Williamsburg and Greenpoint, and now is progressing into Bushwick, and probably Ridgewood.
Many of the shows are run by the Gateway Theater in Bellport Village, not Patchogue Village, so perhaps that’s where the ignorance of it came in…
By the way, the Gateway Theater is not on this site as I believe it never showed cinema.
Do you mean the Century in Flatbush, or the Century on Monroe Ave in Bedford Stuyvesant? Or was there yet another Century in Brooklyn?
That’s a different door. That door with the stairway you mention was also open when I was there….there is another door though, on the other wall……
People seem to leave their trash behind at most theaters nowadays, that is not a problem only the Ridgewood faces.
Peter, where do you come out of Evergreen Cemetery when you walk in at Bushwick Ave? Cooper?
I believe even some of the more facny theaters like the RKO Bushwick and Madison did occasionally do burlesque shows.
Panzer, thanks so much for the comments…Those were my posts you were referring to…and you sound just like I did walking around that store. I also saw that missing ceiling tile (and only seeing dark air above, or peaking into rooms on the sides….
Did you see the door upstairs, a door that if opened I thought would look right to the stage from the balcony. Unfortunately , it was closed when I was up there…..
Your experience sounds similar to mine….I also found NOTHING of the past there, aside from the no nondescript stairway, and the curve of the balcony. That’s it.
GREAT photo….only thing is, they took some creative license…..where’s the Broadway El?
This is exactly the way I remember the theater in it’s final decades passing by it on J or M trains. The place was in shambles by the 90’s. You could look inside those coupola windows right from the platform. My only regret is that I didn’t take any photos when they were tearing it down….The last wall to go was the procenimu arch wall, and it stood exposed to the elements, a cornitian column, and even with a chandelier swinging in the wind….
Anyone know of any interior phtoos available, historic or later years?