RKO Madison Theatre

54-30 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood, NY 11385

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AntonyRoma
AntonyRoma on January 18, 2008 at 10:55 pm

Assuming we had the same local population demographics today as we did in ‘43, I wonder how much would be collected for the UN today to resolve its current financial mess.

Shalom, ciao, and excelsior

AntonyRoma
AntonyRoma on January 18, 2008 at 10:54 pm

Assuming we had the same local population demographics today as we did in ‘43, I wonder how much would be collected for the UN today to resolve its current financial mess.

Shalom, ciao, and excelsior

Panzer65
Panzer65 on January 18, 2008 at 1:22 pm

Re: United Nations Week,that was a lot of dough back in ‘43, I wonder if we had a collection like that today,how much would be raised on the “war on Terror?”

PKoch
PKoch on January 18, 2008 at 11:35 am

Thanks, Warren. Did you contribute that week ? If so, how much ?

AntonyRoma
AntonyRoma on October 2, 2007 at 9:16 pm

New York Times Nov 24, 1927:
New Moss Theatre Opens Tonight.
A new picture and vaudeville theater, BS Moss'Madison Theater in Brooklyn, will have its opening tonight. The new house will seat 3,000 persons and is at Myrtle and Wycoff Avenues, Ridgewood.

AntonyRoma
AntonyRoma on October 2, 2007 at 9:04 pm

Final correction:………From the NYT 7/21/1930:

The first of the intact vaudeville programs planned by the RADIO-KEITHS-ORPHEUM Corporation is now at The Madison Theater in Brooklyn The four act unit will play a route of forty weeks to the Pacific Coast and back.

AntonyRoma
AntonyRoma on October 1, 2007 at 1:08 pm

Do you not believe 11/24/27, ROLLO?
I posted the 5/18/23 date by accident.It referred to a post I made to the Ridgewood.

Shalom, ciao, and excelsior

PKoch
PKoch on October 1, 2007 at 1:05 pm

The date of November 24, 1927 makes more sense.

“The Madison Theater in Brooklyn” : The Brooklyn 27 postal zone strikes again !

Panzer65
Panzer65 on October 1, 2007 at 1:02 pm

Indeed, 1923 seems far fetched, from 1927.

Show em,chow mein, ex seller.

PKoch
PKoch on October 1, 2007 at 1:00 pm

The date of May 19, 1923 seems odd, in light of the fact that the RKO Madison Theater did not open until the weekend after Thanksgiving, 1927.

AntonyRoma
AntonyRoma on October 1, 2007 at 12:58 pm

Hey Rollo,
That was from the 11/24/27 NYT

Measure twice, cut once.
Aye.

Shalom, ciao, and excelsior

AntonyRoma
AntonyRoma on October 1, 2007 at 12:39 pm

From the NYT 5/19/23:

The first of the intact vaudeville programs planned by the RADIO-KEITHS-ORPHEUM Corporation is now at The Madison Theater in Brooklyn The four act unit will play a route of forty weeks to the Pacific Coast and back.

Shalom, ciao, and esxcelsior

AntonyRoma
AntonyRoma on September 21, 2007 at 7:11 pm

Uncheck, the box following the “notify me” statement at the end of the comment box. There are also instructions in the email notifying you theat ‘someone has replied to your message’

Thanks and good luck

AntonyRoma
AntonyRoma on September 21, 2007 at 6:32 pm

Justin : Given your low AND ERRONEOUS opinion of the RKO Madison, Why don’t you unsubscribe from this page.

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on September 21, 2007 at 6:15 pm

BTW, I went to see “Resident Evil: Extinction” over in Rockaway. The premise of that film is so stupid that it could play easily at the Madison, but it boasts some major Hollywood Stars on a medium budget. Too bad most cheapo horror films go straight to DVD, Blu-Ray, and HD-DVD as well as on the internet and cable tv rather than the old grindhouse theaters of yore.

Panzer65
Panzer65 on September 21, 2007 at 3:28 pm

Finger to the eye: poke ohhh!
When The Three Stooges shorts began to appear on local children’s shows in the late 1950s, there was a wave of kids poking each other in the eyes. When Moe heard about this, it was The Stooges who came to the rescue. They went on many local television shows, as well as national TV, and showed how the eye-pokes were done in a way that nobody got hurt. To the kids watching, it was like learning a magic trick.
courtesy of imdb .com

PKoch
PKoch on September 20, 2007 at 9:34 am

Excuse me, Ed, it MAY have, in the A & C film. I’m not sure !

“CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK !!!!!!”

PKoch
PKoch on September 20, 2007 at 9:33 am

It did, Ed. I read about it earlier today on that very same IMDb page. I was also reminded of the camp cult classic, “Queen Of Outer Space”, which takes place on Venus.

Bochino !

Ed Solero
Ed Solero on September 20, 2007 at 9:31 am

Hey Pete… Didn’t that also happen in “Abbott and Costello Go to Mars” or am I confusing the two films?

PKoch
PKoch on September 20, 2007 at 8:41 am

Link to IMDb page for 1959’s “Have Rocket Will Travel” :

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052880/usercomments

Perfect predecessor to “Three Stooges In Orbit”. I think my favorite bit was when they return to Earth and their rocket accidentally goes through the Holland Tunnel !

PKoch
PKoch on September 20, 2007 at 7:44 am

Thanks, Ed Solero, for all this information on the Three Stooges. I’m glad you remember Officer Joe Bolton on WPIX. I vaguely remember Eugene McCarthy as either the Grand Marshal or WPIX host of the NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade. Not to be confused with the US senator and 1968 Democratic presidential candidate aspirant of the same name.

Ed, I remember the 8th Street Playhouse. Andy Warhol’s “Flesh For Frankenstein” in the early 1980’s ? I remember Andy Warhol’s “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” from fall 1974, their forte being gross-out sound effects of loose internal organs squishing around inside abdominal cavities.

My sharpest memory of the early 1980’s 3-d craze was a lobby display in a Times Square movie house for “Friday The 13th Part III in 3-D” to debut on Friday August 13th 1982. That was on Sunday July 4 1982, when three friends of mine and I had gone to see “Star Trek II : The Wrath Of Khan”.

I suppose the thrill of that was supposed to be the skewers coming out the other side and the flying severed heads appeared to be coming right at you.

The first “Friday The 13th” film debuted on Friday June 13 1980.

Ed Solero
Ed Solero on September 19, 2007 at 7:08 pm

I have to correct myself again. Shemp Howard was not in “Buck Privates Come Home”… the A&C film I was thinking about is “In the Navy.” OK, nuff said.

Ed Solero
Ed Solero on September 19, 2007 at 7:05 pm

I think that A&C title should be “Buck Privates Come Home” – my error.

I was born in 1965 also, but I definitely remember the Stooges shorts being hosted on Officer Joe Bolton on WPIX when I was a wee lad. I’m not sure if Bolton was still filming new introductions or if they were merely recycling older shows from the ‘60’s, but PIX carried those episodes into the early '70’s. I also remember Popeye cartoons introduced by Captain Eugene McCarthy on WNEW-TV.

I also remember that back in the 3-D craze of the early 1980’s, I went to see a 3-D film down at the 8th Street Playhouse (I’m almost positive it was Andy Warhol’s “Flesh for Frankenstien” which would be completely incongruous) and they played a 3-D Woody Woodpecker cartoon as well as a 3-D Three Stooges short! I can’t remember the title… but the Stooges played private detectives and there was a mad scientist and a gorilla (the usual cheap gorilla suit) involved in the action!

Ed Solero
Ed Solero on September 19, 2007 at 6:53 pm

Shemp was Moe’s brother and was one of the original Stooges back in the days when they comedic sidemen for Ted Healy. Younger brother Curly joined in the early ‘30’s and the Stooges broke out and launched their series of comic two-reelers for Columbia. Shemp, meanwhile, earned a name for himself as a supporting character in numerous comedies (he had some memorable scenes with Abbott and Costello in their “Buck Privates Go Home”). When Curly suffered a stroke in the mid 1940’s, Shemp came back to the fold to fill in. When Shemp died in the '50’s, comedian Joe Besser (famous as Stinky the Kid on the Abbott and Costello TV show) replaced him. Besser left the Stooges as their careers were fading in the late '50’s and two-reel shorts were becoming an extinct form. Curly Joe DeRita stepped in to fill Besser’s shoes just in time for the boys to launch their much belated but short lived feature length career with 1959’s “Have Rocket Will Travel.”