Wow, thanks so much. I really enjoyed the canarsie Courier photo. How could the theater have deteriorated with all that rubble so quickly if it just recently closed last year!
Heh lostmemory, you seem to know the sneak in tactics a bit too well. It’s okay, you can plea the 5th.
Seriously though, I remember watching movies when the Ridgewood was still one theater and the doors would open. They would almost blind you because you were used to the darkness. I don’t remember it after the theater was multiplexed, but that’s probably because I usually wound up in one of the balcony theaters.
Just last year, I had a chance to peak into the downstairs theater on the Madison St side. Workers were fixing the doors one morning, and had them open, there was no one there, so I steped in a few feet to take a look around. After all, it had been more than a decade since I had been in the theater. It brought back a lot of memories.
Yeah, something is not right here. This was the block with “118” when I took the photo. The corner building is ann old woodframe building, and the building code did not allow that from around the turn of the century onward, so this is an old building.
Actually, the numbers get higher as they go north (meaning the building with the blue awning would be higher than the deli, etc).
When I was I there and took the photo, I was confused. I don’t know exactly which building was 118, however, it was one of the ones in the photo.
Yes, I did enjoy seeing the photo. In fact, thanks to him posting the link to the photo, I now also know that the building I took a photo of back in September (linked above) housing the Associated supermarket actually the Starr Theater building gutted and remodeled into the supermarket. Originally, I had thought that that the Starr had been demolished, and the Associated building built on it’s site.
The “function” above can be cnaged to “retail”, as the building does still exist, and is now the Associated Supermarket, as my photo above shows.
Hi Joe, I have been enjoying a lot of your memories at many of the Brooklyn Theaters.
I don’t know, but if a theater existed before 1888, obviously if couldn’t have been a movie theaterm when built…..
Anyway, as for the Bway or Myrtle els, here are two links you may find interesting….for more memories for yourself….it gives a station by station account of the Jamaica and Myrtle lines and current and old photos: http://www.nycsubway.org/bmt/jamaica/ http://www.nycsubway.org/bmt/myrtle/
Lost, thanks so much for that link! The building next to the Starr is still standing, as you can see from my current photo of the Starr site linked way above in this thread.
So, what do you think guys? Is the Starr theater demolished or just totally resurfaced by comparing the above linked photo with my current photo? Hmmmm, it could just be remodeled, and resurfaced, and be the same building, as the building appears to be the same height.
Well, While the Broadway El was rebuilt to heavier standards (for steal subway trains)and to fit three tracks instead of two in 1914, the original Broadway El was built in 1888, so an el has been above Broadway quite a while….
So anyway, since this is the corner of Graham and McKibbon, looking towards the Rainbow on the next block or so, was the Lindy right next to the deli building (now the Rent-a-Center), or midblock where the blue awninged store is.
If it is the blue awninged store, this can be changed to “closed/demolished”, if it’s the “rent-a-Center” next to the deli, then it’s probably the original building with an altered fascade.
I didn’t upload the original 4mp photo, but the sign says “McKibbon St” in the original larger version of my photo. This is on the opposite side of the Rainbow Theater (see my photo taken the same day of the Rainbow in it’s section).
Very interesting! The survey work being done could have been to build the surrounding stores that may have been built after the Ridgewood. Can’t wait for the rest of the “double-feature”.
Lost, I also will grab the popcorn – although hopefully not from the Ridgewood! The last time I had the Ridgewood’s popcorn I got sick from it – although granted that was 14 or 15 years ago, so hopefully it’s better by now agian…..
Here is the site of the Lindy theater, it could only be the building with the Rent-A-Center (heavily altered), or the one with the blue awning, after the theater was demolished. Joe, do you know where it was on this block? None of these buildings had numbers on them, but how the numbers ran, it had to be one of these buildings, and it couldn’t be the one on the corner, or the one to the left of the rent-a-center.
I don’t know, but I assume it was from the middle of the middle of the balcony. Yes, I agree the balcony seems quite steep!
I wonder if they ever played “Vertigo” in the Bushwick Theater…..
By the way, I can certainly see that ornate “beam” getting in the way of the screen once up a few more rows of seats from where the old photo was taken.
Of course I believe the RKO Bushwick was built as a Vaudeville legit theater, so of course all the seats probably weren’t “good” when the screen was added later. This may be true for many of the old legit thetaers that later showed movies.
Warren, I assume they don’t allow me to remote post a link to an individual photo.
Anyway, here’s the page I found it on, scroll down about 6 photos or so. This should work:
I think this image may show the roof of the Boro Park Theater. This photo was taken in 1969 and taken from the 55th Street station of the New Utrect Ave El: http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1787
Here’s another photo that i believe shows at least the roof of the Boro Park. It’s on the opposite side of New Utrect Ave from the 46th Street Theater, and is around where 51st Street should be. This photo was taken in 1974: http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?24043
By 1976, the building in the 1969 photos is gone, so if this was the Boro Park Theater, it was demolished between 1974 and 1975: http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4520
Does anyone know of any “real” photos of the Boro Park. The ones I found of the theater linked above, obviously are better than nothing, but it would be nice to see something that shows more than just the roofline and watertower.
It is. It’s been a few years since I have been inside. I was last in there for the live version of “101 Dalmations”, whenever that was out a few years ago. The inside was beautifully restored. As you were, I was also quite impressed with the animated marquee.
I was going to see a movie there when I was last in New Orleans back in February of 2004. It was a rainy day, and we figured it would be a good way to kill some time since it was pouring out, before heading out to Bourbon St later that night. Unfortunately, when I was there, there were some really strange movies in all 4 screens of the theater, so we couldn’t really pick one, so we walked over to Bourbon St early, and were completely drenched by the time we got there…..although a about an hour later we didn’t have a care in the world, as we indulged in all that is “Bourbon St”.
I saw “Gangs of New York” in this theater when I was in Las Vegas. It was a quite comfortable theater, and a nice place to take a break in all the “Chaos” that is Las Vegas.
Wow, thanks so much. I really enjoyed the canarsie Courier photo. How could the theater have deteriorated with all that rubble so quickly if it just recently closed last year!
It’s a great plan, but with the home probably being a half-a-million or just under, I dunno….
Thanks Robert!
It looks good. I notice the Veritcal Loew’s sign is still there, minus the letters.
Heh lostmemory, you seem to know the sneak in tactics a bit too well. It’s okay, you can plea the 5th.
Seriously though, I remember watching movies when the Ridgewood was still one theater and the doors would open. They would almost blind you because you were used to the darkness. I don’t remember it after the theater was multiplexed, but that’s probably because I usually wound up in one of the balcony theaters.
Just last year, I had a chance to peak into the downstairs theater on the Madison St side. Workers were fixing the doors one morning, and had them open, there was no one there, so I steped in a few feet to take a look around. After all, it had been more than a decade since I had been in the theater. It brought back a lot of memories.
Yeah, something is not right here. This was the block with “118” when I took the photo. The corner building is ann old woodframe building, and the building code did not allow that from around the turn of the century onward, so this is an old building.
Actually, the numbers get higher as they go north (meaning the building with the blue awning would be higher than the deli, etc).
When I was I there and took the photo, I was confused. I don’t know exactly which building was 118, however, it was one of the ones in the photo.
Yes, I did enjoy seeing the photo. In fact, thanks to him posting the link to the photo, I now also know that the building I took a photo of back in September (linked above) housing the Associated supermarket actually the Starr Theater building gutted and remodeled into the supermarket. Originally, I had thought that that the Starr had been demolished, and the Associated building built on it’s site.
The “function” above can be cnaged to “retail”, as the building does still exist, and is now the Associated Supermarket, as my photo above shows.
Hi Joe, I have been enjoying a lot of your memories at many of the Brooklyn Theaters.
I don’t know, but if a theater existed before 1888, obviously if couldn’t have been a movie theaterm when built…..
Anyway, as for the Bway or Myrtle els, here are two links you may find interesting….for more memories for yourself….it gives a station by station account of the Jamaica and Myrtle lines and current and old photos:
http://www.nycsubway.org/bmt/jamaica/
http://www.nycsubway.org/bmt/myrtle/
Lost, thanks so much for that link! The building next to the Starr is still standing, as you can see from my current photo of the Starr site linked way above in this thread.
So, what do you think guys? Is the Starr theater demolished or just totally resurfaced by comparing the above linked photo with my current photo? Hmmmm, it could just be remodeled, and resurfaced, and be the same building, as the building appears to be the same height.
Well, While the Broadway El was rebuilt to heavier standards (for steal subway trains)and to fit three tracks instead of two in 1914, the original Broadway El was built in 1888, so an el has been above Broadway quite a while….
So anyway, since this is the corner of Graham and McKibbon, looking towards the Rainbow on the next block or so, was the Lindy right next to the deli building (now the Rent-a-Center), or midblock where the blue awninged store is.
If it is the blue awninged store, this can be changed to “closed/demolished”, if it’s the “rent-a-Center” next to the deli, then it’s probably the original building with an altered fascade.
I didn’t upload the original 4mp photo, but the sign says “McKibbon St” in the original larger version of my photo. This is on the opposite side of the Rainbow Theater (see my photo taken the same day of the Rainbow in it’s section).
Very interesting! The survey work being done could have been to build the surrounding stores that may have been built after the Ridgewood. Can’t wait for the rest of the “double-feature”.
Lost, I also will grab the popcorn – although hopefully not from the Ridgewood! The last time I had the Ridgewood’s popcorn I got sick from it – although granted that was 14 or 15 years ago, so hopefully it’s better by now agian…..
Here is the site of the Lindy theater, it could only be the building with the Rent-A-Center (heavily altered), or the one with the blue awning, after the theater was demolished. Joe, do you know where it was on this block? None of these buildings had numbers on them, but how the numbers ran, it had to be one of these buildings, and it couldn’t be the one on the corner, or the one to the left of the rent-a-center.
Click here for link to current photo
I don’t know, but I assume it was from the middle of the middle of the balcony. Yes, I agree the balcony seems quite steep!
I wonder if they ever played “Vertigo” in the Bushwick Theater…..
By the way, I can certainly see that ornate “beam” getting in the way of the screen once up a few more rows of seats from where the old photo was taken.
The RKO Bushwick’s interior
The RKO Bushwick’s Interior
Of course I believe the RKO Bushwick was built as a Vaudeville legit theater, so of course all the seats probably weren’t “good” when the screen was added later. This may be true for many of the old legit thetaers that later showed movies.
Cool. Thanks for posting that link. As Warren said, that is definitely the Meserole. Lost, by the way, check your mail.
Warren, I assume they don’t allow me to remote post a link to an individual photo.
Anyway, here’s the page I found it on, scroll down about 6 photos or so. This should work:
View link
Here’s a photo of the 46th Street theater taken from street level that I found on the web.
I think this image may show the roof of the Boro Park Theater. This photo was taken in 1969 and taken from the 55th Street station of the New Utrect Ave El:
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1787
Here’s another photo that i believe shows at least the roof of the Boro Park. It’s on the opposite side of New Utrect Ave from the 46th Street Theater, and is around where 51st Street should be. This photo was taken in 1974:
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?24043
By 1976, the building in the 1969 photos is gone, so if this was the Boro Park Theater, it was demolished between 1974 and 1975:
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4520
Does anyone know of any “real” photos of the Boro Park. The ones I found of the theater linked above, obviously are better than nothing, but it would be nice to see something that shows more than just the roofline and watertower.
It is. It’s been a few years since I have been inside. I was last in there for the live version of “101 Dalmations”, whenever that was out a few years ago. The inside was beautifully restored. As you were, I was also quite impressed with the animated marquee.
I was going to see a movie there when I was last in New Orleans back in February of 2004. It was a rainy day, and we figured it would be a good way to kill some time since it was pouring out, before heading out to Bourbon St later that night. Unfortunately, when I was there, there were some really strange movies in all 4 screens of the theater, so we couldn’t really pick one, so we walked over to Bourbon St early, and were completely drenched by the time we got there…..although a about an hour later we didn’t have a care in the world, as we indulged in all that is “Bourbon St”.
I saw “Gangs of New York” in this theater when I was in Las Vegas. It was a quite comfortable theater, and a nice place to take a break in all the “Chaos” that is Las Vegas.