Wow, This brings back memories of my childhood. We lived in one of the Bernstein attached row houses that dominated the neigborhood on the west side of Parsons Boulevard. The developer rushed to provide post WWII housing for returning GI’s and their young families. The construction was somewhat shoddy having been built on long pilings driven into the swampy wetland that, prior to 1946, was all wooded.
As a child, age 3, I watched with fascination as a steam driven pile driver pounded one telephone pole after another into the soft earth. I was saddened by the loss of my beloved forest which, until then, was my playground. Another Queens street with an identical row of attached houses became my new backyard.
The Parson’s theater opened when I was age 3. If memory serves me, the marque was painted navy blue. At age 7 I remember seeing the 3D sci-fi thriller “It Came From Outer Space” at the Parsons. It was very scary in 3D. I hid in my seat, at times not daring to look at the screen.
The Parsons was the first movie house I’d ever seen and will forever be fixed in my memory as what a modern movie theater should look like.
Wow, This brings back memories of my childhood. We lived in one of the Bernstein attached row houses that dominated the neigborhood on the west side of Parsons Boulevard. The developer rushed to provide post WWII housing for returning GI’s and their young families. The construction was somewhat shoddy having been built on long pilings driven into the swampy wetland that, prior to 1946, was all wooded.
As a child, age 3, I watched with fascination as a steam driven pile driver pounded one telephone pole after another into the soft earth. I was saddened by the loss of my beloved forest which, until then, was my playground. Another Queens street with an identical row of attached houses became my new backyard.
The Parson’s theater opened when I was age 3. If memory serves me, the marque was painted navy blue. At age 7 I remember seeing the 3D sci-fi thriller “It Came From Outer Space” at the Parsons. It was very scary in 3D. I hid in my seat, at times not daring to look at the screen.
The Parsons was the first movie house I’d ever seen and will forever be fixed in my memory as what a modern movie theater should look like.