Thanks, Lost Memory. I’ve seen that vintage photo. It looks east on Gates Avenue from Ralph Avenue to Broadway.
It goes hand in hand with another old photo I’ve seen looking north on Ralph Avenue, from Gates Avenue to Broadway, showing the Empire Theater on the left, near the intersection of Ralph and Lexington Avenues and Broadway. That photo also shows the Lexington Avenue el turning out from the Bway el.
Bway, good question, as you have taken and posted some excellent photos of the exterior of Loews Gates as it is now.
robbie dupree, thank you for posting that. That is exactly what has happened on the Ridgewood Theater page (# 4021 on this site)for people from Ridgewood.
Thanks, EdSolero ! “only the bottom half of this double bill was playing” : So the double bill was topless, eh ?
Vampire Playgirls ? Like Gay Dracula, I suspect that blood is not all that they suck. Yes, it must have wound up in at least one 42nd Street grind house.
Thanks, EdSolero. At the same time “Porky’s” came out, there was a Moral Majority Quiz in Mad Magazine, one question being, “When you shower, do you soap the faucet so you don’t accidentally see yourself nude ?”
Thanks, I just answered my own question by looking in Celebrity Movie Archives. One sees her bare butt, but not her breasts. Yes, I know she was one of the four ferocious sex kittens in “Sex and the City”. Thanks for the recommendation of “Porky’s”. Hollywood should keep on doing what it does “breast”(best).
Thanks for all this interesting info, Warren. I wonder if the Ridgewood’s cooling system still draws water from a subterranean spring, rather than NYC water supply.
You’re welcome. Have you been to the Richmond Hill Historical Society’s website ? If not, perhaps Bway could direct you.
I remember reading that Teddy Roosevelt once campaigned for President from the elevated platform of the Richmond Hill LIRR station, then went across Myrtle Avenue to the upstairs floor of the Triangle, changed his clothes, then headed into Manhattan, early in the 20th century.
You’re welcome, robbie dupree. My pleasure. Bway has many interesting things to say and show about the Broadway Theater, which once stood at the southwest corner of Bway and Myrtle Avenue, and which dates back to the late 19th century. I think there’s a page on it on this site.
Thanks, Warren, for all the info on the early and small cinemas of downtown Jamaica.
Thanks, Warren, for this info. I never knew that the Parthenon had “taken over” for the Ridgewood Theatre in this way, in the summer of 1930. How do you know this ?
That’s true, Bway. I suppose that was also partly true of the Valencia.
Thanks, Lost Memory. I’ve seen that vintage photo. It looks east on Gates Avenue from Ralph Avenue to Broadway.
It goes hand in hand with another old photo I’ve seen looking north on Ralph Avenue, from Gates Avenue to Broadway, showing the Empire Theater on the left, near the intersection of Ralph and Lexington Avenues and Broadway. That photo also shows the Lexington Avenue el turning out from the Bway el.
Bway, good question, as you have taken and posted some excellent photos of the exterior of Loews Gates as it is now.
Thanks, Bway.
klass, isn’t a “brain freeze” what you end up with if you spend too much time on this site ?
It seems from what you’ve written, Warren, that, in 1934, Jamaica needed a new store more than a new theatre.
robbie dupree, thank you for posting that. That is exactly what has happened on the Ridgewood Theater page (# 4021 on this site)for people from Ridgewood.
Thanks, EdSolero ! “only the bottom half of this double bill was playing” : So the double bill was topless, eh ?
Vampire Playgirls ? Like Gay Dracula, I suspect that blood is not all that they suck. Yes, it must have wound up in at least one 42nd Street grind house.
Thanks, EdSolero. At the same time “Porky’s” came out, there was a Moral Majority Quiz in Mad Magazine, one question being, “When you shower, do you soap the faucet so you don’t accidentally see yourself nude ?”
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Thanks, perhaps I will. Here’s a link to those scenes.
Thanks, I just answered my own question by looking in Celebrity Movie Archives. One sees her bare butt, but not her breasts. Yes, I know she was one of the four ferocious sex kittens in “Sex and the City”. Thanks for the recommendation of “Porky’s”. Hollywood should keep on doing what it does “breast”(best).
OK, Lost Memory, I’ll wait for an expert to wade in with a few pithy phrases.
At the risk of “the wrath of Warren”, how does Kim Cattrall look in the nude in this one ?
Lost Memory, how does the Marr & Colton theater organ compare with a Wurlitzer ?
Yes, that IS sad, and, no I don’t know what’s there now.
Thanks, Lost Memory. I’ve never checked the Google map for the Parthenon, but I’m not at all surprised that it’s wrong.
Thanks, Warren, for the references and explanation.
Lost Memory, are you posting from personal experience of the Parthenon ?
Thanks for all this interesting info, Warren. I wonder if the Ridgewood’s cooling system still draws water from a subterranean spring, rather than NYC water supply.
Thanks, Warren. Interesting that Richmond Hill once had its own telephone exchange, in addition to the VI(ctoria)(84) exchange.
You’re welcome. Have you been to the Richmond Hill Historical Society’s website ? If not, perhaps Bway could direct you.
I remember reading that Teddy Roosevelt once campaigned for President from the elevated platform of the Richmond Hill LIRR station, then went across Myrtle Avenue to the upstairs floor of the Triangle, changed his clothes, then headed into Manhattan, early in the 20th century.
You’re welcome, robbie dupree. My pleasure. Bway has many interesting things to say and show about the Broadway Theater, which once stood at the southwest corner of Bway and Myrtle Avenue, and which dates back to the late 19th century. I think there’s a page on it on this site.
Thanks, Warren, for all the info on the early and small cinemas of downtown Jamaica.
Good points, Lost Memory. Thanks.
Thanks, Warren, for this info. I never knew that the Parthenon had “taken over” for the Ridgewood Theatre in this way, in the summer of 1930. How do you know this ?
Any ideas, even speculation, as to what might next occupy said premises ?
No, the scenes at the abandoned movie house were filmed at the RKO Bushwick. “Bway” on this site has ample proof and documentation.
Thanks, RobertR. I’ll check it out on the IMDb.
ShortyC, I agree with you. BTW, that’s Modell’s, not Models/