I saw this with my sister “I”, waited on line with several nuns and listened to chanters who where saying… “You’re going to Hell”, “Blasphemy against the church” and other nice Catholic phrases. The pickets lasted a while helping create lines at the box office, it was sold out for days. I don’t know what the big fuss was all about.
In the movie “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (1974-5), when Alice and her son leave Socorro by station wagon they drive by the Sierra Vista Drive In. You can see the screen tower in the distance as the car is driving by it. Since it was filmed in Socorro, it must be the Sierra Vista. When I re-see all the old films on DVD, a theatre usually pops up here and there. Even in new movies, real movie palaces always pop up, never multiplexes (OK maybe some do). In “Hail Caesar!” a few years back the lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre appears for a sneak preview!
I saw a wonderful yiddish musical called “Take Me To The Pitkin” which had a limited run at this theatre in the park. If I find the Playbill program (well-designed) I will get someone to post it here. Thanks CC.
I have the 11 x 14 glossy photos from 20th Century Fox that were in the display case where the long white fluorescent light is under the marquee. I worked for B.S. Moss at the Criterion and the manager was Mr. Mann, not to be confused with the Ted Mann of Mann Theatres.
The Village East can be seen in the new film “The Goldfinch” which it subs as the Bowery Theatre (on the Village East marquee) and some auditorium shots (in the balcony of the original theatre). Don’t blink, both scenes run a mere minute.
The picture isn’t the bomb the critics claim it to be as I don’t read papers until I see the picture. A drama that should be seen unlike half the trash they throw at the screen these days.
Sorry for the mispels, I was running out of time on the computer. …..the Loew’s Pitkin followed suit but still had the once and a while vaudeville acts show here and there.
The Loew’s Kings stopped stage shows before thier 1st Anniversary with an “all the show on the screen policy”, the Loew’s Pitkin followed but still had the occasinal vaudeville acts only once am week or so, but continually every week.
You’re right about that at 63 myself, nee 1956, I spent one morning in the New Penthouse Theatre upstairs not realizing that the year before it was the Strand Theatre before renovations. The movie was “FINIAN’S RAINBOW” on a school trip from Shallow JHS with all the mosic and choral students at the time at 10A.M., we had lunch at the automat next door. Yes it was quite fun for the $1.00 we paid (for the movie). When people tell me to forget the past, I never talk to them again. Those who didn’t live it shouldn’t talk about it … they have absolutely no idea of the time it was. The Cinerama had “Ice Station Zebra” The final roadshow at the Strand was “Camelot” and then the film “The Green Berets”. They did not close during the twinning except for a week before the opening of the new Broadway triplex.
Music by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, the soundtrack album sold better than tickets for the movie. It played at the Paris, then the Brandt’s Astor and lastly the Granada Theatre with a co-feature “The Lawyer” with Barry Newman. Paris is in France and the other two locations are in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
This picture was in the Wall Street Journal last Friday, yet your above post doesn’t comment on that. The picture wouldn’t be here had they not printed it. Thank you Wall Street Journal.
The United Palace, when it shows its' monthly movies uses a brand new red velvet, gold trimmed curtain that closes at the movies end. Showmanship has a faint heartbeat here at least. One of my favorite single screen veue for movies!! is now the last…
with a curtain.
Some time ago, with my Olumpus Stylus camera I filmed the movie ending, house lights dimming then the house lights slowly rising as the the curtains started to close, as the credits came to an end ten seconds later the traveler closed the credits had ended. The last movie I saw was Mary, Queen of Scots this past Christmas. I knew the end was coming when Pavarotti opened and ten days later the theatres' closing was supposed to have happened but didn’t, this false alarm was actually an alert that the final days were coming. Pavarotti didn’t interest me so as you people say, a better film like “Romeo and Juliet” 1968 would have been a better swan song. Sorry to see it go but enjoyed
every moment as I sat and watched every movie for the past three years. I hope the Village East does not close or else I will stop going to the movies. Life is short now and movies stink into the heavens. The last curtained movie theatre has bitten the dust. Shane on the landlord, certainly inhuman and horrible New Yorker.
Auditorium of the Oceana Theatre, the lobby is still there with a free standing box-office and a slopping floor. the floor straightened in the inner lobby and in the auditorium where it sloped downward for the orchestra seatsto the stage.
The staircase is not the original one. You acsess the restrooms from a wide staircase on the riht hand side of the orchestra seating area, the candy stand was in the, set slightly back from the seating area so you could actually around the counter but concessions wer sold from the front facing incoming audiences. The ladies room would be at the top ofthe left staircase and the mens room was to the left accssesed by a simple staircase in the inner lobby on ththe left, not in the orchestra. Today you can see cove lighting as you enter the supermarket still intact..
this would have been the back of the orchestra between the back ofthe candy stand to the last row of the orchestra, a four foot wooden halh wall backed the seats and you would be able to see the entire auditorium. 1n 1974-1975 when I worked there, Mr. Schiering closed the balcony to save on projectionist’s salaries as they got paidby the number of seats. Two balcony/loge entrances wer plaster-boarded one with a door so the Projectio booth still in the balcony. I left in 1976 when it became apparent that Scheiring would be retiring and was going to sublease to Golden Theatres, the abotionists of the Loew’s Alpine ant then the Oceana. The Oceana was a beautiful theatre as far as I was concerned, but to longtime employe there “Gloria” the candy counter/matron called it “Do you how much money it costs to heat up this big old barn?” She was ahoot anda very nice lady with a good sense of humor on everything and sex. This is only a tid-bit, there is much more. Let me know if you want to hear Part II.
From the center dome of the auditorium when the building was quadded by Cineplex-Odeon. Nicely lit and maintained. You would have thought it would have ended up in Garth Dubinsky’s home. I wonder if he or RKO management painted over the William Pogany murals/tapestries at the Kenmore, Brooklyn’s moneymaking theatre until it closed or so I’m led to believe. Loew’s Metropolitan under the care of the Brooklyn Tabernacle is wonderfully maintained with all three lobbies in use during Christmas time.
While at Fort Tryon and the Cloisters this past Sunday, I finally saw the former Loew’s Inwood. If the facade was converted to fifth’s, from left to right, first would be a combo Dunkin Donuts, 2nd and 3rd – The Children’s Place and 4th and 5th the CVS for a total of three storefronts not a huge CVS. The CVS runs the length of the building as does Children’s Place. The combo donut/ice-cream is in an original redone storefront which was part of the structure. Nice area of low lying buildings soon to be redeveloped NYC nightmare of high rises, There goes the neighborhood and the people who call it home. At the parkside (Broadway and 200th St. is a Packard dealership with its original facade intact as a parking garage. At least it is main business is cars.
I saw this with my sister “I”, waited on line with several nuns and listened to chanters who where saying… “You’re going to Hell”, “Blasphemy against the church” and other nice Catholic phrases. The pickets lasted a while helping create lines at the box office, it was sold out for days. I don’t know what the big fuss was all about.
In the movie “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (1974-5), when Alice and her son leave Socorro by station wagon they drive by the Sierra Vista Drive In. You can see the screen tower in the distance as the car is driving by it. Since it was filmed in Socorro, it must be the Sierra Vista. When I re-see all the old films on DVD, a theatre usually pops up here and there. Even in new movies, real movie palaces always pop up, never multiplexes (OK maybe some do). In “Hail Caesar!” a few years back the lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre appears for a sneak preview!
I saw a wonderful yiddish musical called “Take Me To The Pitkin” which had a limited run at this theatre in the park. If I find the Playbill program (well-designed) I will get someone to post it here. Thanks CC.
The base needs a little paint for the upper east siders which AMC can well afford, especially at the Lincoln Square 13.
There also was a Mary Poppins with umbrella pop-up. I had it. Great movie tie-in, it would cause choking in today’s society.
I have the 11 x 14 glossy photos from 20th Century Fox that were in the display case where the long white fluorescent light is under the marquee. I worked for B.S. Moss at the Criterion and the manager was Mr. Mann, not to be confused with the Ted Mann of Mann Theatres.
I loved “Paranoia” and have the poster, for Carroll Baker fans. I saw her at a “Station Six Sahara” screening at the Film Forum.
If I can read it with no glasses, everyone should be able to read it. It is totally legible and a wonderful marker!
The stage apron was dismantled and is no longer there.
The theatre was playing one film about Glenn Gould.
The Village East can be seen in the new film “The Goldfinch” which it subs as the Bowery Theatre (on the Village East marquee) and some auditorium shots (in the balcony of the original theatre). Don’t blink, both scenes run a mere minute. The picture isn’t the bomb the critics claim it to be as I don’t read papers until I see the picture. A drama that should be seen unlike half the trash they throw at the screen these days.
Tick…tock….tick…tock goes the clock.
Sorry for the mispels, I was running out of time on the computer. …..the Loew’s Pitkin followed suit but still had the once and a while vaudeville acts show here and there.
The Loew’s Kings stopped stage shows before thier 1st Anniversary with an “all the show on the screen policy”, the Loew’s Pitkin followed but still had the occasinal vaudeville acts only once am week or so, but continually every week.
You’re right about that at 63 myself, nee 1956, I spent one morning in the New Penthouse Theatre upstairs not realizing that the year before it was the Strand Theatre before renovations. The movie was “FINIAN’S RAINBOW” on a school trip from Shallow JHS with all the mosic and choral students at the time at 10A.M., we had lunch at the automat next door. Yes it was quite fun for the $1.00 we paid (for the movie). When people tell me to forget the past, I never talk to them again. Those who didn’t live it shouldn’t talk about it … they have absolutely no idea of the time it was. The Cinerama had “Ice Station Zebra” The final roadshow at the Strand was “Camelot” and then the film “The Green Berets”. They did not close during the twinning except for a week before the opening of the new Broadway triplex.
Music by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, the soundtrack album sold better than tickets for the movie. It played at the Paris, then the Brandt’s Astor and lastly the Granada Theatre with a co-feature “The Lawyer” with Barry Newman. Paris is in France and the other two locations are in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
This picture was in the Wall Street Journal last Friday, yet your above post doesn’t comment on that. The picture wouldn’t be here had they not printed it. Thank you Wall Street Journal.
The United Palace, when it shows its' monthly movies uses a brand new red velvet, gold trimmed curtain that closes at the movies end. Showmanship has a faint heartbeat here at least. One of my favorite single screen veue for movies!! is now the last… with a curtain.
Some time ago, with my Olumpus Stylus camera I filmed the movie ending, house lights dimming then the house lights slowly rising as the the curtains started to close, as the credits came to an end ten seconds later the traveler closed the credits had ended. The last movie I saw was Mary, Queen of Scots this past Christmas. I knew the end was coming when Pavarotti opened and ten days later the theatres' closing was supposed to have happened but didn’t, this false alarm was actually an alert that the final days were coming. Pavarotti didn’t interest me so as you people say, a better film like “Romeo and Juliet” 1968 would have been a better swan song. Sorry to see it go but enjoyed every moment as I sat and watched every movie for the past three years. I hope the Village East does not close or else I will stop going to the movies. Life is short now and movies stink into the heavens. The last curtained movie theatre has bitten the dust. Shane on the landlord, certainly inhuman and horrible New Yorker.
This is an all new staircase to the right…. not original.
Auditorium of the Oceana Theatre, the lobby is still there with a free standing box-office and a slopping floor. the floor straightened in the inner lobby and in the auditorium where it sloped downward for the orchestra seatsto the stage.
The staircase is not the original one. You acsess the restrooms from a wide staircase on the riht hand side of the orchestra seating area, the candy stand was in the, set slightly back from the seating area so you could actually around the counter but concessions wer sold from the front facing incoming audiences. The ladies room would be at the top ofthe left staircase and the mens room was to the left accssesed by a simple staircase in the inner lobby on ththe left, not in the orchestra. Today you can see cove lighting as you enter the supermarket still intact.. this would have been the back of the orchestra between the back ofthe candy stand to the last row of the orchestra, a four foot wooden halh wall backed the seats and you would be able to see the entire auditorium. 1n 1974-1975 when I worked there, Mr. Schiering closed the balcony to save on projectionist’s salaries as they got paidby the number of seats. Two balcony/loge entrances wer plaster-boarded one with a door so the Projectio booth still in the balcony. I left in 1976 when it became apparent that Scheiring would be retiring and was going to sublease to Golden Theatres, the abotionists of the Loew’s Alpine ant then the Oceana. The Oceana was a beautiful theatre as far as I was concerned, but to longtime employe there “Gloria” the candy counter/matron called it “Do you how much money it costs to heat up this big old barn?” She was ahoot anda very nice lady with a good sense of humor on everything and sex. This is only a tid-bit, there is much more. Let me know if you want to hear Part II.
TO CC: I love these oldies but goodies, a great find. Merci!
From the center dome of the auditorium when the building was quadded by Cineplex-Odeon. Nicely lit and maintained. You would have thought it would have ended up in Garth Dubinsky’s home. I wonder if he or RKO management painted over the William Pogany murals/tapestries at the Kenmore, Brooklyn’s moneymaking theatre until it closed or so I’m led to believe. Loew’s Metropolitan under the care of the Brooklyn Tabernacle is wonderfully maintained with all three lobbies in use during Christmas time.
While at Fort Tryon and the Cloisters this past Sunday, I finally saw the former Loew’s Inwood. If the facade was converted to fifth’s, from left to right, first would be a combo Dunkin Donuts, 2nd and 3rd – The Children’s Place and 4th and 5th the CVS for a total of three storefronts not a huge CVS. The CVS runs the length of the building as does Children’s Place. The combo donut/ice-cream is in an original redone storefront which was part of the structure. Nice area of low lying buildings soon to be redeveloped NYC nightmare of high rises, There goes the neighborhood and the people who call it home. At the parkside (Broadway and 200th St. is a Packard dealership with its original facade intact as a parking garage. At least it is main business is cars.