Cinema Kings Highway

Thanks for the info, saps. I enjoyed in the documentary how they revisited the theatres of Woody’s youth.

A longtime Brooklyn resident, I was never inside, so I’ve learned something I didn’t know about the interior space of the Cinema. All I know about the theater is by reputation, through friends. I won’t belabor the point, but the payphone in the theater was heavily used, as were the payphones on Kings Highway near the famous notorious municipal parking lot at East 13th Street, several blocks to the east of this theater. In my day, in the 70s and 80s, this strip of Kings Highway was a famous cruising area, which I can testify to personally.

Craigslist is the place for hookups. Let’s keep this site for the original purpose. Some of the old theatres became churches. Others went the other way. But they were part of cinema history so we can’t deny them there space.

can we meet at your place.jeff leave your email.

HEY JEFF HAVE YOU BEEN AT THE FAIR LATELY LOOKING SEXY? GET BACK TO ME OK.

I was talking to someone today who lives right near this theater. He says he can’t imagine how it still stays open, as it is almost always dead inside, practically nobody there. Hope the old Jewel doesn’t meet the old bulldozer soon!

Okay, this is better.

Doh! Had to look up “zen”.

The site is full of useless drivel from people who think their posts are fascinating. Why are some observations more valid than others? Consider the value of this recent post:

(((“Little Women” ran three weeks at RCMH and was replaced on 12/7/33 by Universal’s “Counsellor-At-Law” (John Barrymore) and a stage show built around Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade.” Due to the nearly two-hour running time of “Little Women,” the stage show was brief, described in advertising as “Unusual” and with participation of the Symphony Orchestra, Choral Ensemble, Corps de Ballet, and Roxyettes. An ad from Saturday, 11/18/33 (third day of the engagement, has doors opening at 10AM, with the feature shown at 10:12, 12:35 PM, 2:58, 5:21, 7:44, 10:07, 12:06. The stage show was apparently dropped for the midnight screening.)))

well, you can thank the homophobia and hate mongering of some (oh alright, ONE) of the members here, whose meddling troublemaking is forcing those interested in these theaters to move to other sites.

Funny, the RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL link is full of boring trivia about lip-synching Rockettes' pre-recorded taps, failing set pieces, camel shit, failed gimmicky digital projectors and people waxing melancholy about events fifty years ago. Movies are no longer shown there.

The FAIR and CINEMA KINGS HIGHWAY go off to some closet because these living breathing cinemas attract a politically incorrect lifestyle that can tell us what is happening today.

Is CT a living site about cinema preservation or just a tombstone for failures that have failed to survive?

Guys, MarkieS, etc., don’t write any more about the adult things on this site. Email me at and I can tell you a better site where you can talk about some of the aspects other than just antique ornamentation. Seriously, do not discuss any more about these theaters on here, it is NOT in our interests, and there is enough info already here. It is not productive to try to have debates about life-styles, etc., in this site. In that sense, they even have a point. But also, there really is another site where you can discuss what you want, and I’ll be glad to give it to you.

I just called the Fair, and the guy who answered assured me that the theater would be back to normal (a relative term I know!) by next Tuesday.

Very cool description, McGinty. And I think it does quite well without those hideous statue-things and dreadful light fixtures in the front lobby of the Fair—which make you think you’ve just finally entered the World of SLAG!