Apollo Theatre
223 W. 42nd Street,
New York,
NY
10036
223 W. 42nd Street,
New York,
NY
10036
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Nice shot of the Apollo & Lyric from the 40s at View link Jerry 42nd Street Memories
I remember visiting the Lyric quite frequently in the 50s/60s. As Warren stated, it did have the 1st 42nd St showings after a film had a Broadway run, as did the New Amsterdam on the south side. The Lyric, being an old legit theater had 3 levels and seeing a movie from the top level was a trip. You were looking down on the screen through the haze of the rising cigarette smoke. Last week, the Travel Channel was showing a hour program on Times Square. It included shots of the Lyric & Apollo from the 70s. If anyone knows where I can see photos, images, etc of the 42nd Street Theaters in the 50s-60s, please let me know. Jerry 42nd Street Memories
I know this corporate sponsor naming brings in some much needed cash, but It’s vulgar. At least calmer heads prevailed and the Winter Garden was able to keep it’s original name with Cadillac tacked in the front. The city has now announced it wants to sell corporate naming of subway stops like Xerox 18th Street and Summers Eve Delancy Street.
What is the quote that is written downstairs by the ladies' bathroom?
It is written by Ford and I don’t remember it, can somebody help me?
Yes, that’s the same Lyric Theatre, Todd.
Is this the same Lyric Theater that Deniro’s character takes Cybil Sheppard into to see the porn film in the Movie ‘Taxi Driver’?
Does anyone know the significance of the women in the top corners of the facade? I was recently in the city and noticed that the facade is extremely similar to the Garden Theatre in Charleston, SC. They are obviously both Beaux arts/neo-classical style-but what’s the background on the women?
The Apollo 42nd Street was much more than a “grind run” house. Perhaps the term “grind run art house” would be more accurate. For decades it ran double bills of recent and older foreign-language films. Sometimes movies that didn’t get an opening in an art house “of class” found their way here. Films shelved by distributors occasionally got aired here. The premiere of Franco Rossi’s wonderful THE WOMAN IN THE PAINTING (“Friends for Life”) took place here in 1959 and was reviewed by the New York Times. I remember walking by the theatre in the 60s and noticing a revival double bill was playing of Rossellini’s WOMAN along with Vittorio Gassman in SHAMED. I am a lover of Italian films, but I had to leave the city and could not stay to see this program of revived Italian rarities. WOMAN was really “Desiderio”; SHAMED was “Preludio d'amore.” I have since seen DESIDERIO, but never PRELUDIO D'AMORE. Damn! But, the point is, the Apollo 42nd Street showed stuff like this and much more…and they were open about 20 hours per day.