Ridgewood Theatre
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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LM and mm: It wasn’t exactly rocket science or require special comuter skills to recover Monica’s EM from this page: ><, or ><.
I would think The Ridgewood should be designated a National Landmark anf the village of Ridgewwood should be designated An Historic District. ;–)
Refraining from aditional comments….
Shalom, ciao,and excelsior
I mentioned this website to the staff, but I think all of us need to call & write to the owners at the address & number I gave above, tell them about the website, and suggest some of these wonderful ideas we all have. I don’t know how it could get landmarked; maybe some of you politicos know about that. When it comes down to it: if the owners have given up, what can any of us do ? But let’s see what they say after we contact them. As I said, according to the manager I spoke with, they’ve lost interest. The feeling I got when i went there is that the staff is just marking time. I’m thinking of going to see “The Wicker Man” just to talk to the4 staff again, and see how attendance is. But I guess we all have to get ourselves in gear, and contact the owners. Have a good week-end, kids !
How do I know the owner will get the letter? Suppose an employee get’s the letter and throws it away? Perhaps monica will return to this website so we can communicate with her. When frankie attends another movie at the Ridgewood theatre he could tell the owners about this website.
I found the website for monica. I don’t see any email address. Perhaps I am overlooking it. The entire building should be landmarked not just the entranceway.
http://hometown.aol.com/mharb64560/THEATRE.html
First off, welcome back Lost, I am glad the smoke cleared, and we can get back to normalicy here.
Anyway, I hope the Ridgewood stays open, but I have been predicting it’s demise for a while now….I agree, I think it’s more a case of suicide than the Atlas. Personally, I left the Ridgewood for other theaters years before I moved out of Ridgewood, and it’s probably because the place was so neglected back then already. It appears nice in the photos, but it really needs a rehab. It needed one 15 years ago when I was last in there, and aside from perhaps a paintjob, I doubt it got any other maitenence to speak of.
As for people going to the movies in Ridgewood….like I said, I didn’t go there all that often in later years even when I did still live there. And in general, I think box office counts are done everywhere. I mean look at the movies Hollywood has been putting out lately. Nothing all that exciting in a while….
A $10 all you can watch buffet. haha Perhaps Monica could be a liaison between this website and the theatre management. How would one go about contacting Monica?
“I wish that the owners of the Ridgewood theater would login here and give their side of the story.”
Have they been invited ? Do they know about this site ? If not, how would we get in touch with them, to invite them ?
In the 1930’s, a small nabe like the out-of-the-way Victory in West Bayside, Queens, would celebrate their 1 year anniversary with over the top programming. And that was during the depression! How things have changed! Ninety years and not a hint of notice by the Ridgewood’s owners. Showmanship is truly dead!
“I still don’t believe that the Atlas Park is killing off the Ridgewood theater. It’s more a case of suicide.”
Agreed. Suicide by neglect.
Don’t the people that now live in Ridgewood go to movies any more ?
Monica ? Anyone ?
Ditto. Welcome back, Lost. I already welcomed him back in that news item about posting guidelines, but now it’s welcome back to “ground zero” as it were. The Ridgewood missed you! Now… where on Earth is Brooklyn Jim?
Since I can’t be the first, Let me chime in with a big resounding “WELCOME BACK LOST MEMORY”.
Glad to see that your comment status has been restored. You are still heads and shoulders above the next nearest submitter by almost 2 to 1 (7165/3888).
Shalom, ciao, and excelsior.
PKoch, I spoke to the manager, and he said that even on week-ends, business is lousy. Theater #1 had less than 10 people when I attended the second Friday screening of “S.O.A.P.” All the other theaters had about 2 or 3 people each. He thinks the owners may soon throw in the towel, and it could happen, unless the place is completely landmarked, and starts getting neighborhood support, like my Pavilion, which had a quiet, well-attended house for “The Illusionist” last week-end. I’ll come back here again soon, because I’m a sentimentalist. I too wish to scream out: “WELCOME BACK, LOST MEMORY !!!”
Does anyone know how attendance and business (profit) at the Ridgewood have been, in the last few months that its “rival”, the Atlas Park Multiplex in Glendale, has been open for business, and how that attendance and profit compare with the values before the Atlas Park Multiplex opened ?
How about some movie trivia to help liven things up. haha
WELCOME BACK LOST MEMORY !!!!
No, not another plaster lesson, unless it’s a hands-on lesson from Suzie Plaster Caster, with plenty of lubricant inside the plaster to keep it from sticking.
Yes, frankie, I think they do.
PKoch, I just meant with all the nastiness. But I think the administrators have it well in hand now.
Here’s a map link to Ridgewood and the surrounding areas, showing present theaters including our grand old lady (glide your mouse across the pins):
view map
Triggered it by a search for Niederstein’s restaurant re a discussion in the Arion page.
It would have included all the movie-houses of my mis-spent youth, mostly in Glendale, Woodhaven, Middle Village, and Ridgewood.
Shalom, ciao, and excelsior,
George S : Great seeing you here ! Welcome !
Non-theater Ridgewood chat : please include your private e-mail address in your “contact information”, and I will get in touch with you.
You might be interested in the “Bushwick Buddies” site :
Just send Eleanor an e-mail at the above address, introducing yourself, and she’ll help you get started.
The Alhambra has its own page on the Cinema Treasures site.
The Ridgewood probably DID have “dish nights”. They were before my time, and my dad experienced them in Bushwick movie theaters like the Colonial, which page please see on this site.
Grover Cleveland High had graduations at the RKO Madison Theater in 1965 and 1972. I do not know about 1958 or 1959.
Perhaps Warren can, or has, come up with a link to a newspaper ad showing that “The Robe” played at the Ridgewood Theater. Yes, it did star Richard Burton and Victor Mature, also Michael Rennie and Dean Jagger. I think “King Of Kings” was shown there in 1961 or 1962.
Jackie Gleason may have appeared at the Alhambra. It used to be on the eastern corner of Knickerbocker Avenue and Halsey St. I have read that Gleason attended amateur nights as a boy with his father, as a member of the audience, at the Halsey Theater, on Halsey Street just east of Saratoga Avenue, and went on to perform on amateur night there. The Halsey Theater is no longer there, but has a page on this site.
I have also read that some of Gleason’s characters and routines, like Joe The Bartender, Mr. Dunahey, and Crazy Guggenheim (Frank Fontaine) came from Proces' Bar in Bushwick. Perhaps other people on this site, or at Bushwick Buddies, could elaborate.
The Great One was a Bushwick boy. The “Honeymooners”, the Kramdens and Nortons, lived at 329 Chauncey Street, yet I think the address on Gleason’s mother’s death certificate was 358 Chauncey Street. Both addresses are between Bway and Fulton Street. I have also read that Gleason attended public schools, yet took Catholic instruction at Our Lady Of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church on Aberdeen Street between Bway and Bushwick Avenue.
They called it “Bensonhurst”, not “Bushwick”, yet when Ed Norton mentioned “that vacuum cleaner place on DeKalb Avenue”, well, we know that was a real street in our old neighborhood.
I was born in 1955 at the hospital that used to be at Bway and Chauncey Street. My parents and I lived on Cornelia Street in Ridgewood, close to St. Matthias, yet I attended St. Brigid, and graduated there in June 1969. My mother and oldest aunt attended Bushwick High School. My parents used to live on Weirfield St. two houses away from St. Martin Of Tours R C Church.
I like Monica H and her home page too.
Greetings! I clicked on to this site as I was trying to remember the name of a bar on Fresh Pond Road. This site on the Ridgewood movie house is informative and with the input of its contributers, is quite nostalgic.
My memory tells me the Ridgewood is where I saw “The Robe”. Richard Burton & Victor Mature?
I think a few times a year the theatre also had live variety shows (not vaudeville) before some movies. This would have been in the evening – before I was allowed to go by myself. Did they have a Dish Night?
I’m pretty sure it was in the Ridgewood, not the Madison, where the graduation exercises for Grover Cleveland High School were held in 1958 or 1959. My cousin, Rose, was a member of that graduating
class.
Some interior renovation work may have taken place in the mid-
sixties. If work was done, it was probably performed by Eastern
Scagliola Company of Decauter St in Ridgewood. The last two
sentences are a little vauge, but it has been a few years and I
don’t know how to verify this reccollection.
Non Ridgwewood Theatre comments follow.
I didn’t read the e-mails from the last two years but a word or two
on some that I did catch. The walk-up Chinese restaurant/strippers
bar (I don’t think they were female impersonators – either way, I
was too young to be a patron) was the Ridgewood Terrace.
My father, George, at one time owned the Linden Inn at Myrtle and
Linden. He told me that The Swedish Angel, one of the strong men in
the tug-of-war scene, in the original “Mighty Joe Young”, fought at
the Ridgwood Grove.
Does anybody remember the Alhambra? It was a movie house on
Knickerbocker Ave near St. Martin of Tours. It is my understanding
that Jackie Gleason, before he became The Great One, appeared there.
His Ralph Kramden character was one of my father’s favorites.
Considering all the bars (we used to call them saloons) in Ridgwood, I’m sure some of Jackie’s other characters were influenced by the neihborhood.
I lived at 405 Irving Ave (near Bushwick High School), attended St. Martin of Tours till the 2nd grade. We moved to Cooper Ave and 60th Lane and I attended and graduated St. Matthias in 1955.
Can you make contact with former and current Ridgwoodites without
taking time and space from this Ridgewood Cinema Treasure site?
Thanks for letting me ramble!
George S
P.S. I think Monica H and her home page are GREAT!!!
Based on conversations I have had PKoch that would not be the correct individual to contact. You could contact the website owners to voice your displeasure with events currently taking place. What I had in mind was contacting other members who in turn could contact the website owners. Perhaps a meeting at the Ridgewood theatre would be a perfect vehicle to sort this all out.
Yes, frankie, some of us meeting at the Ridgewood theater in the near future WOULD be a good idea.
How is it “getting kinda creepy on this site” ?
LostMemory, thanks for your kindness & thoughfulness. I DID enjoy seeing the Ridgewood, although with mixed feelings, as I reported above. As you can see, you have a whole phalanx (!!!) of support, but it IS getting kinda creepy on this site. We can still have fun in spite of it. Hopefully, some of us may even meet at the Ridgewood sometime in the near future.
Whom should we e-mail, mikemovies ? Bryan, the owner / editor of the site ?
I just checked my profile page. I don’t think it’s been tampered with.
We could begin a grassroots campaign by email to raise the awareness of the other members to this injustice PKoch. A quick remedy would be best for all involved. I should have mentioned this before. My profile page was tampered with fella’s. I don’t normally look at that page. Perhaps you should check your own page. My favorite theatres has been deleted along with my favorite movies. Not very cool.