That map also shows what was probably the BLUEBIRD Theatre on Amsterdam and 147th Street and what looks like a film studio on Amsterdam and 150th Street.
It is amazing how these studios are looking for new ways to further screw their DVD retailers and theatres instead of fixing the problem.
Here’s an idea:
Make a few more movies like “Julie & Julia” all year round. They cost less, do not require 3D glasses or special effects, and bring in an audience that has disposable income and a longer attention span than a fly. You may actually make money off the geriatrics over 30 on the theatrical run alone and then sell a few DVDs to help offset the cost of the next TRANSFORMER sequel.
I first saw it at the Sunny Isles in North Miami Beach in 35mm where I was working at the time. I liked it so much that on a visit to NY I saw it again at the Warner Cinerama (Strand) in 70mm on move-over from the Ziegfeld. The experience was so magnificently different that it seemed like another film.
The credit-less ending left me with a devastating armageddon feeling I have never forgotten. The 35mm version, although good, did not make me feel quite the same and the “REDUX” version is even weaker.
I was here in 1981 for a Miami Q & A with Ralph Bakshi for the animated “AMERICAN POP”. When students started questioning him about his controversial older film “COONSKIN” instead, Balkshi had a fit and refused to answer any more questions.
The Beaumont was famously faced with an exploding projector when it tried to screen the Cuban made “MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT” sometime in the late sixties, after local theatre chains were intimidated into not showing the now classic film.
miamiguy, I have found at least 17 movie theatres operating in the area around 1927.
RIVIERA (Homestead)
COCONUT GROVE
CORAL GABLES (Gables)
COMMUNITY
BISCAYNE PLAZA
CAPITOL
FLAGLER
PARAMOUNT
OLYMPIA
HIPPODROME
FAIRFAX
FOTOSHO
7th AVENUE (Strand)
TIVOLI
TOWER
ROSETTA
RIALTO (79th St)
I have seen some mention of the Miami Beach Auditorium (1949-50) but I don’t know what that was either.
This theatre is now listed twice.
/theaters/18893/
So is Muvico stepping in or is Coconut Grove cinemaless for the first time in years?
Cool shot, LM.
I never knew the Miami Beach Carib had a wannabe clone. Good move for Clearwater.
Bill, you forgot “DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK”.
Marilyn knew how to play the bimbo to her dumb core audience as well as Rush Limbaugh plays the clown to his. Brilliant opportunist entertainers!
By the way 1939 is the real thing. Rent the DVDs and you will see.
Fantastic info, Willimd.
Please do tell us more about Wometco. There seems to be so little about this great pioneer Florida company.
KingsBiscuits, the real question really is:
How is $400 million not enough to break even?
What other stupid projects are these idiots pouring money into and do they deserve Wall Street level blood bath?
Thanks K.L., that works.
That map also shows what was probably the BLUEBIRD Theatre on Amsterdam and 147th Street and what looks like a film studio on Amsterdam and 150th Street.
It is amazing how these studios are looking for new ways to further screw their DVD retailers and theatres instead of fixing the problem.
Here’s an idea:
Make a few more movies like “Julie & Julia” all year round. They cost less, do not require 3D glasses or special effects, and bring in an audience that has disposable income and a longer attention span than a fly. You may actually make money off the geriatrics over 30 on the theatrical run alone and then sell a few DVDs to help offset the cost of the next TRANSFORMER sequel.
I believe this closed as the Republic, not the New Yorker.
In the summer of 1952,
The Apollo was most probably presenting a double feature of foreign nudie nonsense sold as art, as the pre-porn house really always was.
Joe, the Sutton was already advertising in the NYT as showing movies in 1934.
Great article, Joe. Thanks.
The Village opened in 1969 and became a triple in 1972.
I saw it at the Dadeland Twin in South Miami in 70mm. The sequel, ALIENS, in 355mm was the better film in a mediocre series.
I first saw it at the Sunny Isles in North Miami Beach in 35mm where I was working at the time. I liked it so much that on a visit to NY I saw it again at the Warner Cinerama (Strand) in 70mm on move-over from the Ziegfeld. The experience was so magnificently different that it seemed like another film.
The credit-less ending left me with a devastating armageddon feeling I have never forgotten. The 35mm version, although good, did not make me feel quite the same and the “REDUX” version is even weaker.
That wide definition would include almost every Broadway Theatre, every public and private space in Manhattan with seating, and Central Park.
CT previously did not accept such listings.
Does this type of listing open this website to theatres that are mostly legitimate although they screened movies for a while?
I was here in 1981 for a Miami Q & A with Ralph Bakshi for the animated “AMERICAN POP”. When students started questioning him about his controversial older film “COONSKIN” instead, Balkshi had a fit and refused to answer any more questions.
The Beaumont was famously faced with an exploding projector when it tried to screen the Cuban made “MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT” sometime in the late sixties, after local theatre chains were intimidated into not showing the now classic film.
Both Coral Way and 13th Avenue (Cuban Memorial Blvd.) have central reservations or “parkways”.
The city usually does that and then fines the theatres for cutting them back.
The WORLD and SHOW WORLD are two different venues. The latter is still there, in some form, on 42nd and 8th Avenue.
An Empire on 39th and 9th did show some films in 1923-24.
Great story. These people probably have a better sense of America, as a result of their photo obsession, than most of us will ever have.
A big thank you from Miami.
It did indeed show movies in 1915, 1916 and again from 1947-1949.