As of right now other then the movies at Sheepshead bay and Kings Plaza I would have no idea where one would go to see a movie in Brooklyn Although I have read that the Ridgewood is open again but only on weekends. It was one of those places where you don’t know if it is in Brooklyn or Queens on Myrtle Avenue.
Mpol. I agree with you on the point of selling pirated/bootleged DVD’s or tape. However I do not see anything wrong with taping or burning a movie for ones personals use.
Just for your information there are places such as www.fancast.com that have a library of films and TV show on line that are 100% leagal to view to your hearts content. Matter of fact they just added Season 3 of Airwolf.
On the otherhand it was a travisty that the courts ruled against NAPSTER as far as Peer to Peer transfers making it illeagal for me and everyone else in the USA to send or receive song files. All based on lies by the recording indusrty.
As stated in a previouspost the movie industry is very creative not only when it makes movies but the way it makes money and take advantage of the losses by taking tax write offs.
To get back on topic here I am glad to hear the Ridgewood is up and running. I hope it becomes a full time venue again.
Lost you got that right. I was fortunate enough to be present at game #6 of the 1986 World Series between the NY Mets and the Red Sox. It was a very very cold October evening and I had the worst migrain in history. I was also in section 46 in the upper nose bleed seats. It was a cold day to begin with and even colder at game time.
I wonder how the picture quality was back in 1949 as compared to today.
I remember seeing some movies Kingsway pre and post multiplexing. One of the things that used to happen back in the 60’s were some of the local High School graduation commencments. Does anyone have any recent pictures of what it looks like now?
As you should know or be aware that the major reason World Series games are now played at night is because of Television and “Greed”. Does anyone recall the last time a World Series game was a day time game? I know they had day games in 1969. GO METS.
Wow Warren where did that picture? That was awesome. I wish I could have been around back in that time. WW II was over and things in the US were starting to roll.
Peter when we has a closed circuit event at the NY Acadey of Music they use the regular movie screen. From the picture inside the Fox it looked like they had to rig one up. They used to run a reciever unit with a dish and aim it at a transponder somewhere in the city. The projection unit was set up about 20 rows back in the orchestra section. One time I had a friend of min bring in his “PONG” game and it was so awesome seeing it up on the big screen. Ahhh the simple life back then.
WOW I only ever got to see the outside of the Fox before it was torn down. And here I thought closed circut TV was a big up and coming thing in the 70’s. I had no idea they had it back then
I dont think so because when I do go directly to the link. Just like I did now and on the top it says “ Welcome back, EcRocker! Logout”.
So as of right now I am logged in but it does not mean after I attempt to post this it says that dreaded message. Maybe I should change the cookies I use from Choclate Chip to Macadamia Nut. I have tried sending the complaint to the powers that be but I am not sure they get it or reply. I am now going to copy this message and post it.
All we ask is for RESPECT just a little bit. hehehehehehehehe
Lost can you answer me something since you seem to be all over the place. Why is it that I can be logged in here and post a message and find out I was logged off? I have spent time writing messages and hitting submit and get a message saying only members can post please join or log in.
What I have wound up doing is copying my message relogging in and pasting to repost.
Good thing I did cause I got this.
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Thanks Peter. Warren I was just on the Academy of Music page as well and anything prior to your links to the 2 intirior pix are not showing either. If you do have any pix of the Academy intirior or extirior I would love to see them. For what ever reason I can not seem to find any on google or any other search engine. It is almost like it was never there. NYU can bite me.
Warren there are quite a few. What you may want to do is an ALT-F and type in photobucket on this page and it should take you to all the links you have posted one by one. You may also want to check some of your other favorite sites on here as well.
Does anyone recsall if the Madison still had the “Blade” above the Marquee at the time it closed. I don’t recall if it did or not but that was 30 years ago.
Btw Warren most of your photobucket links from 2007 on back don’t seem to be there. Were they deleted?
I guess Marquees are going the way of some of the older theatres. Even the Beacon now has a digital marquee. I remember back in the 70’s having to change the marquee at the now gone NY Academy of Music in the middle of winter. Having to deal with winds ,cold, rain and snow. There iwas on a 15 foot high ladder with all my cold metal letters. There is or was an art to it though. First you would read what was up there to determine what letters you would need. It saved time and dupliction of letters. I was also doing it for a while when it was changed to the Palladium. I even had to stop someone from taking letters from the rack there. They took letters to spell their name.
What some people have done to pirate the movies was to get a hold of what they call “Screening” copies of the movie that are sent out to movie reveiwers so they don’t have to leave their house.The kicker is that they are sent out via a system where all the copies are coded and signed for and tracked.
You can rest assured that the DVD version of the movies that are released are already in the box ready to hit the stores once they determine that enough time has gone by when the movie has been pulled from the theatres. The “Bombs” are usually out there within 2 months after it is done showing where as the bigger money makers may be 6 months to a year. Also the same day the DVD is released it is available on On Demand for some outragous price.
I know what you mean Peter about the bootlegs. I saw a bootleg video tape of a movie where i saw the screen at an angle heads bobbing up and down and peole talking through the movie.
Ah yes. I vividly I remember the Badfinger show. They were supposed to play 2 shows in one night. The first show went off fine but the second show was canceled because the Pagan Motorcycle group threatend to start a riot for some reason. So the show did not go on.
Does anyone know if Gus Ungano is still alive?
I have a yahoo site for those of you who remember or went to concerts at The NY Academy of Music or when it was (UGH) The Palladium
Even a 1977 dollar maybe wotrh more due to inflation how many seats did it fill compared to a 2008 dollars. It’s comparing apples to oranges. Back then most of the theatres were still single screen. The multiplexs back then did did not have the same type of equipment that they have today to where they could show the same print in more then one room. Now all they do is splice the reels together and add enough leeder time that they can show the same movie in any or all the rooms they have.
I don’t know if they installed that system in the Ridgewood. When i went there was only 1 screen and 3 carbon arc projectors. I am sure they had to upgrade to operate as a multiplex.
i am sorry to hear that the Kings is still in limbo.. I keep hearing about Marty Markowitz now that he is the BP of Brooklyn. I know Marty and I worked for him at his summer concerts. He is 2 faced. He makes it look like he is out there for the people but he is really in it for him self. With the Sea Side concets and the Concerts at Wingate HS Marty for what ever reason got away with not having to put open bids out for sound and lighting companies and hired who he was in cahoots with. He hired a guy to do sound. he did not have enough equipment to even do a small HS auditorium so he had to subcontract out anothe PA rental company. He got away without paying for a stage crew by having volunteers. IA Local #4 was not happy about that because it was in their jurisdiction. One year I tried to put a bid in for the PA Syetem and was told that he was not accepting bids. He was supposed to take open bids because most of the money he got to produce the shows came from the NEA NYS dept of the arts as well as NYC. Yes he had private sponsors but the public ones gave him most of the money. I really hope this is his last political job.
If he was a man of his word the Kings would have been reopened by now.
Seems like Marty is up to his old schtick. You wonder why I don’t like him.
Yes Peter if you look at it from our side of the camera. Hollywood is pumping out movies at blinding speeds.
Movies today unlike movies of when I was growing up only stay playing for no more then a month. Sometimes even less. The only constant todays Stadium Seat multiplexs have in common with the single screen theatres are the consession stands. Popcorn and soda has always been the least cost of anything they sell but the highest mark up. Why do you think that most places offer you free refills on popcorn and soda? Costs them less then 25 cents for a large cup of soda or popcorn. Thats what pays the rent not the movies.
When they talk about record breaking blockbuster movies what most people forget is when Star Wars came out in 1977 it only cost $5 to see it as compared to $10 or more to see a movie.
BTW I saw Star Wars at the Lowes Astor Plaza when it first cam eout.
I remember seeing something that looked like a ticket but I can’t recall what it said and when Ron Delsener took over the building he had it painted over with a mural.
Sometimes I hate this site. I spent some time on here talking about the Ridgewood and some how it logged me out.
I was in there area from Mid 77-78. Iknew the district manager for the UA theatre group that owned the Ridgewood and got to see movies for free with a guest if i had one. One thing I was able to do was watch the movies from the closed to the public balcony which they only opened when the main floor filled up. I had some great times there.
To bad the movie industry as far as theatres go are dying because of the advent of first the VCR, Cable DVR and DVD’s.
I guess for some of us the old movie houses are still a reality in our minds.
As of right now other then the movies at Sheepshead bay and Kings Plaza I would have no idea where one would go to see a movie in Brooklyn Although I have read that the Ridgewood is open again but only on weekends. It was one of those places where you don’t know if it is in Brooklyn or Queens on Myrtle Avenue.
Mpol. I agree with you on the point of selling pirated/bootleged DVD’s or tape. However I do not see anything wrong with taping or burning a movie for ones personals use.
Just for your information there are places such as www.fancast.com that have a library of films and TV show on line that are 100% leagal to view to your hearts content. Matter of fact they just added Season 3 of Airwolf.
On the otherhand it was a travisty that the courts ruled against NAPSTER as far as Peer to Peer transfers making it illeagal for me and everyone else in the USA to send or receive song files. All based on lies by the recording indusrty.
As stated in a previouspost the movie industry is very creative not only when it makes movies but the way it makes money and take advantage of the losses by taking tax write offs.
To get back on topic here I am glad to hear the Ridgewood is up and running. I hope it becomes a full time venue again.
Lost you got that right. I was fortunate enough to be present at game #6 of the 1986 World Series between the NY Mets and the Red Sox. It was a very very cold October evening and I had the worst migrain in history. I was also in section 46 in the upper nose bleed seats. It was a cold day to begin with and even colder at game time.
I wonder how the picture quality was back in 1949 as compared to today.
I remember seeing some movies Kingsway pre and post multiplexing. One of the things that used to happen back in the 60’s were some of the local High School graduation commencments. Does anyone have any recent pictures of what it looks like now?
As you should know or be aware that the major reason World Series games are now played at night is because of Television and “Greed”. Does anyone recall the last time a World Series game was a day time game? I know they had day games in 1969. GO METS.
Wow Warren where did that picture? That was awesome. I wish I could have been around back in that time. WW II was over and things in the US were starting to roll.
Peter when we has a closed circuit event at the NY Acadey of Music they use the regular movie screen. From the picture inside the Fox it looked like they had to rig one up. They used to run a reciever unit with a dish and aim it at a transponder somewhere in the city. The projection unit was set up about 20 rows back in the orchestra section. One time I had a friend of min bring in his “PONG” game and it was so awesome seeing it up on the big screen. Ahhh the simple life back then.
WOW I only ever got to see the outside of the Fox before it was torn down. And here I thought closed circut TV was a big up and coming thing in the 70’s. I had no idea they had it back then
Lost when will that happen. Seems like it has been FUBAR and OOC since I have been on here.
I dont think so because when I do go directly to the link. Just like I did now and on the top it says “ Welcome back, EcRocker! Logout”.
So as of right now I am logged in but it does not mean after I attempt to post this it says that dreaded message. Maybe I should change the cookies I use from Choclate Chip to Macadamia Nut. I have tried sending the complaint to the powers that be but I am not sure they get it or reply. I am now going to copy this message and post it.
All we ask is for RESPECT just a little bit. hehehehehehehehe
Lost can you answer me something since you seem to be all over the place. Why is it that I can be logged in here and post a message and find out I was logged off? I have spent time writing messages and hitting submit and get a message saying only members can post please join or log in.
What I have wound up doing is copying my message relogging in and pasting to repost.
Good thing I did cause I got this.
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Thanks Peter. Warren I was just on the Academy of Music page as well and anything prior to your links to the 2 intirior pix are not showing either. If you do have any pix of the Academy intirior or extirior I would love to see them. For what ever reason I can not seem to find any on google or any other search engine. It is almost like it was never there. NYU can bite me.
Warren there are quite a few. What you may want to do is an ALT-F and type in photobucket on this page and it should take you to all the links you have posted one by one. You may also want to check some of your other favorite sites on here as well.
Does anyone recsall if the Madison still had the “Blade” above the Marquee at the time it closed. I don’t recall if it did or not but that was 30 years ago.
Btw Warren most of your photobucket links from 2007 on back don’t seem to be there. Were they deleted?
I guess Marquees are going the way of some of the older theatres. Even the Beacon now has a digital marquee. I remember back in the 70’s having to change the marquee at the now gone NY Academy of Music in the middle of winter. Having to deal with winds ,cold, rain and snow. There iwas on a 15 foot high ladder with all my cold metal letters. There is or was an art to it though. First you would read what was up there to determine what letters you would need. It saved time and dupliction of letters. I was also doing it for a while when it was changed to the Palladium. I even had to stop someone from taking letters from the rack there. They took letters to spell their name.
What some people have done to pirate the movies was to get a hold of what they call “Screening” copies of the movie that are sent out to movie reveiwers so they don’t have to leave their house.The kicker is that they are sent out via a system where all the copies are coded and signed for and tracked.
You can rest assured that the DVD version of the movies that are released are already in the box ready to hit the stores once they determine that enough time has gone by when the movie has been pulled from the theatres. The “Bombs” are usually out there within 2 months after it is done showing where as the bigger money makers may be 6 months to a year. Also the same day the DVD is released it is available on On Demand for some outragous price.
I know what you mean Peter about the bootlegs. I saw a bootleg video tape of a movie where i saw the screen at an angle heads bobbing up and down and peole talking through the movie.
Hey Lost when I was living out there Sasquatch was playing at the Ridgewood and the Madison was boarded up.
Ah yes. I vividly I remember the Badfinger show. They were supposed to play 2 shows in one night. The first show went off fine but the second show was canceled because the Pagan Motorcycle group threatend to start a riot for some reason. So the show did not go on.
Does anyone know if Gus Ungano is still alive?
I have a yahoo site for those of you who remember or went to concerts at The NY Academy of Music or when it was (UGH) The Palladium
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NY_Academy_of_Music
Peter
Even a 1977 dollar maybe wotrh more due to inflation how many seats did it fill compared to a 2008 dollars. It’s comparing apples to oranges. Back then most of the theatres were still single screen. The multiplexs back then did did not have the same type of equipment that they have today to where they could show the same print in more then one room. Now all they do is splice the reels together and add enough leeder time that they can show the same movie in any or all the rooms they have.
I don’t know if they installed that system in the Ridgewood. When i went there was only 1 screen and 3 carbon arc projectors. I am sure they had to upgrade to operate as a multiplex.
i am sorry to hear that the Kings is still in limbo.. I keep hearing about Marty Markowitz now that he is the BP of Brooklyn. I know Marty and I worked for him at his summer concerts. He is 2 faced. He makes it look like he is out there for the people but he is really in it for him self. With the Sea Side concets and the Concerts at Wingate HS Marty for what ever reason got away with not having to put open bids out for sound and lighting companies and hired who he was in cahoots with. He hired a guy to do sound. he did not have enough equipment to even do a small HS auditorium so he had to subcontract out anothe PA rental company. He got away without paying for a stage crew by having volunteers. IA Local #4 was not happy about that because it was in their jurisdiction. One year I tried to put a bid in for the PA Syetem and was told that he was not accepting bids. He was supposed to take open bids because most of the money he got to produce the shows came from the NEA NYS dept of the arts as well as NYC. Yes he had private sponsors but the public ones gave him most of the money. I really hope this is his last political job.
If he was a man of his word the Kings would have been reopened by now.
Seems like Marty is up to his old schtick. You wonder why I don’t like him.
Yes Peter if you look at it from our side of the camera. Hollywood is pumping out movies at blinding speeds.
Movies today unlike movies of when I was growing up only stay playing for no more then a month. Sometimes even less. The only constant todays Stadium Seat multiplexs have in common with the single screen theatres are the consession stands. Popcorn and soda has always been the least cost of anything they sell but the highest mark up. Why do you think that most places offer you free refills on popcorn and soda? Costs them less then 25 cents for a large cup of soda or popcorn. Thats what pays the rent not the movies.
When they talk about record breaking blockbuster movies what most people forget is when Star Wars came out in 1977 it only cost $5 to see it as compared to $10 or more to see a movie.
BTW I saw Star Wars at the Lowes Astor Plaza when it first cam eout.
I remember seeing something that looked like a ticket but I can’t recall what it said and when Ron Delsener took over the building he had it painted over with a mural.
Sometimes I hate this site. I spent some time on here talking about the Ridgewood and some how it logged me out.
I was in there area from Mid 77-78. Iknew the district manager for the UA theatre group that owned the Ridgewood and got to see movies for free with a guest if i had one. One thing I was able to do was watch the movies from the closed to the public balcony which they only opened when the main floor filled up. I had some great times there.
To bad the movie industry as far as theatres go are dying because of the advent of first the VCR, Cable DVR and DVD’s.
I guess for some of us the old movie houses are still a reality in our minds.
Been a while since I set foot in here and I am still in agony anytime I see the NYU dorm.
Tom Drewke and Spotone please contact me or
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NY_Academy_of_Music
Thanks, Michael
Ok I am pissed now. I just spent 20 minutes on a comment and when I went to submit it it said I was logged out
I will make this quick before it happens for a 3rd time
Hi Rosie Moyssi
I just made a Yahoo group for those of us who worked at the Academy of Music on 14th st. It is open for all to join
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NY_Academy_of_Music
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NY_Academy_of_Music