To Mike, I know about the Doris Day series and all its' changing
plotlines. Four Seasons in all, but television isn’t Tinseltown. Movies and TV shows are two different mediums. ….? Today, yesterday’s TV shows are todays movies and most should not see the light of theatres or TV screens. Nuff said.
To Vindanpar, which title is racist? ? ?.
P.S. They booked RCMH some garbage so they could close it down due to costs, as they did with the Roxy when RCMH operated it during the last years to get rid of their competition a block away. They succeded(sic) in 1958-59, the Roxy was closed and if a ploy works they used it again twenty years later with their own RCMH.
“Where Were You…..? didn’t sink her career as she knew herself that’s why she went out (Forgive the pun!) with her last film "With Six You Get Eggroll”, a better effort and swan song. Remember it was her no good husband who squandered her fortune, (Melcher) for you milleniums who may not know and the horrors of the Manson murders of Sharon Tate and all in the house that her son Terry owned or rented previously to the gruesome murder. She had enough of Tinseltown
It did well in the 5 or 6 week run, over $1,500.000, averaging 250,000 to 280,000 a week. That was great in those days with $1. price before 12 noon. “Where Were You…..?” did far less in Loew’s showcase run only lasting 1 week and 2 days. I saw it at the Loew’s Kings and 30 years later found the poster in the basement of the theatre glued on a poster that fit the one sheet frames of the Kings. A poster is 27"x41", Loew’s Kings frames were 30"x44". Yes, I do have the poster as it was the only one-sheet poster in the entire building. Loved the movie, have it on DVD (Swedish Version) with credits in Swedish and letterboxed at 1:85:1, originally filmed in Panavision 2:35:1. It’s uncut, good print and STILL not available in the U.S. C'mon fellas give a release already. Some people are waiting 51 years to see it again! I can’t believe it was only avaialable in VHS a short while in the 1990’s. Never shown on TCM either. “What’s Up Doc?”
Leon A Miller also was the architect for the South Bay Theatre in West Babylon and Tin North and Twin South in Hicksville. All theatres except South Bay where under the Town and Country Theatres and the South Bay Theatre was under the Imperial Banner. I had the privilege of knowing Mr. Miller personally as he visited the South Bay since builder, landlord and owner of the building to see if it was maintained by the lease-holders. He was well into hus early nineties and that was about ten years ago. A nice and warn gentleman who always remembered ny name and greeted me with respect. That’s missing today in all three venues I worked after leaving South Bay before it closed and still is. The South Bat in it’s day as a single theatre was a beautiful theatre. All his theatres are known for their stone use in the facades.
This is the RKO Strand in Far Rockaway, Queens, now demolished. The Brooklyn Strand is BRIC, it’s facade is on a corner on Fulton Street, sadly gutted and facade defaced by a horrible paint job, gray and white without considering the columns and the two mottos split in half grey top and white bottom, I believe.
Hey BigJoe'59 ….From Sept of 1973 to May of 75, all the downtowm theatres weroperating except the Fox, torn down within those months, the Paramount, Strand were closed in other uses. The Orpheum and Momart weretorn down in the early 1950’s. Loew’s and the RKO Albee, Duffield and Majestic were still open. You might be mistaking the Albemarle Theatre with the Albee. The Albemarle, Astor, Kings, Rialto (all Flatbush Ave.) and the Beverly, Kenmore and Granada (all Church Avenue) were all operating at this time. However the Kings and Rialto both closed on August 30 1977 along with the Astor. The Granada 1982, Albemarle in 1983 with the Beverly soon after. The RKO Kenmore was the holdout until 1999. Three of the Flatbush Avenue theatres all in a row are still intact… 1 for live shows and 2 as houses of worship. In order of condition it’s the Albemarle, Kings and the Rialto (the oldest at 103 years old looks like the day it opened (interior). The Albemarle is immaculately maintained inside and out (including power washing the bricks on the facade and side (every year!), the sidewalks and interior. No theatre gets that much tender loving care. I will not discuss the Kings for obvious reasons.
The movie is “Follow Me Boys” about boys camping outing, thus all the boys in their boy scouts' uniforms. The young men are not ready to “Follow The Boys” … yet.
My bank has a old photo of the block and the former Antoinette/Glenwood as a wedding facility called the _____
Terrace (Oops! the name escapes me, getting older is not what it used to be). I willpost the name in a few days and by the way it was a 1940’s photo. Also in the same photo is the Farragut Theatre, a little further north on Flatbush Ave. I guess being in the middle between the Century’s Farragut and College Theatres, the Glenwood had no chance of survival. Century Theatres had a monopoly on Flatbush Avenue with 6 theatres nestled from Midwood Street and the Junction. Name all six if you read this post. I gave you two.
“Mrs. Pollifax-Spy” was aired on TCM in letterbox no less, that’s where I copied most of my favorite unaired movies or not on VHS, DVD or Blue Ray. To this day, thet have not been re-broadcast on TCM either. When I saw it, it was the bottom of the bill with “What’s The Matter With Helen?”. IF UA-Tranamerica released “Pussycat, Pussycat I Love You” a 1970, six day engagement with Sat.-Mon. matinees of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”,
they can put out “Mrs. Pollifax-Spy”. I love all the movies that I listed in this post and realized that Ian McShane in 1969 was a very talented actor at that time (along with Jennifer Thompson)
long, long before “Deadwood”.
as of June 30, 2019, thru a hole in the 181st entrance I caught a glimpse of the marble staircase which are awaiting…. the facade on 181st St. and the the angel’s face on Broadway also await. Windows, up above open exit doors are open to let the pigeons have their final days of their home also lost their lease. I will post again in two weeks… No walls have come down since my last post but the end is near… Goodbye RKO Coliseum. It lasted 99 years but won’t be for its' centennial. Like the Loew’s Victoria. A Dunkin Donuts is set to take over the corner.
Let me put my two cents in here, Mr. Vindanpar. The complete theatre exists behind the walls built forward on the sides and front of stage downstairs. The top procenium of theatre is viewed in the upstairs front stadium cinema and the entire ceiling details are seen in the entrances on both sides upstairs while the cinema ceilings of both upstairs cinemas are painted dark colors but the details can be seen. What I am saying is should the death nell happen to movies in the next ten years, the BAM Rose Cinemas can be put back intact as it was with the alterations removed. The theatre exists like the Loew’s Paradise in the Bronx which was twinned, tripled and quaded before it closed and is now is in it’s original 1929 opening single auditorium. Loew’s covered the original decor and was sensitive in its conversions and that’s why the Loew’s Paradise is a prime example for the BAM Rose Cinemas to follow.
Mike (saps): Some things should be remembered for what they were and I am not upload saavy or own a computer. I have no use for it, but look at it this way… I don’t have to upload the photos of the way it looks now… no one should have to view this rape of a building again dot, dot, dot! Sorry for the delayed response. (Five months late).
I had to go to Boro Park yesterday and “Guess What?” While no one was watching the facade of this theatre was stripped of its'
beautiful terra cotta arch windows, two lions' crests and roofline glazed terra cotta (in color) as well as all the brick work. Landlords always get away with anything they want instead of working it into the scheme of things. But then again this is Boro Park and that community is known for its' history or how to preserve it for they care not. Now the facade is plain grey and charcoal stripes. Horrendous and nauseating at the same time. At least in East New York they knew how to spare the four exterior walls and have some nostolgia for the former Loew’s Pitkin which leads into the shopping area. The former Loew’s 46th could have followed that example but did not. the “4515” shopping complex and apartment/condos lead the New Utrecht Avenue to the sleazy stores that line it from 45th St to 60th St. This area now looks worse than Pitkin Avenue in the 1970’s. No class in Boro Park. I will never look at or go there as long as I live. As the owner said “It’s only plaster inside”… and I’ll add “it’s only brick and mortar on the outside” Goodbye 46th Street Theatre, you will only live here at Cinema Treasures!
I have several original copies of this of this flyer given out at all RKO Theatres. These flyers were found at The Prospect Theatre in Brooklyn. Sorry, not for sale!
Used in “Midnight Cowboy”, (1969), opening credits with John Wayne movie on marquee when Joe Buck (Jon Voight) walks by leaving town for NYC. (Movie was The Alamo)
Yes, as a member of the congregation, they allowed me to bring Matt Lambros in to see it. He took pictures which were to be for his private use only and then posted them here without asking.
The sanctuaries are private. The church elders were not happy with this. Because of this, they will not let me bring in guests to show the interior. Two interior shots were posted here and I ask cinema treasures to delete the Matt Lambros photos as soon as possible. By the way, Happy belated 103 anniversary!!
as of May 5, 2019, there are no posted permits for demolition on any part of the exterior of the former Coliseum. Scaffolding is limited to the first story of the structure and “el raton” abatements (raton hotels) along 181st St. and Broadway perimeters of the building. Like the Loew’s Victoria, the building will be demolished on it’s centennial. This still leeaves the Regent and the decrepit Hamilton and the newer
former RKO 23rd Street as the companies leftover legacies. P.S. and the Marble Hill if that’s still standing even though a Bronx location. Still painful to see the longest running RKO venue in the borough go. The last to carry the RKO name and (vertical RKO sign on 181st Street into the 2000’s.
A faux pas. The theatre was used for the filming of “They Might Be Giants” with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward filmed in 1971 and released in 1972. You get to see the balcony, the two stars, an usher and a bag lady… just the clientle the theatre was drawing in its' last days. However when the enter the theatre, the New Amsterdam on 42nd street, and exit it this gem filled in for the open theatre and from there the two stars walk to Broadway. The film didn’t fair well at the box-office despite the two Academy Award stars, being a Newman-Foreman production. It was quite fun to watch and the TV version ending was slighly
altered. it was first run in a Manhattan theatre and then doubled up with “The Hired Hand” for its' RKO Showcase Presentation first run and only seen by very few. At the Granada in Booklyn it was on the bottom of a double bill with “Mary, Queen Of Scots”. While “Mary” was on % 40-60 (Underbelly in movie house lingo in the theatre’s favor, the 2nd feature “Giants” was booked at $50.00! plus tax. And that’s the way it was in 1972. As far as the Fox it was demolished in 1972-73 time frame. The offices would have made great condos at 14 floors of space as the buildings now!!!! Quelle domage……
Overview should be changed to “closed in November 1971 with the final film being "SHAFT” and “THE SPLIT” with Jim Brown".
Late sixties can be construed to any date after January 1968.
The Palace which opened in 1925 closed in 1969/70 making it the longest in business. The Palace played “Planet Of The Apes” in ‘68 and “The Detective” in late '69 listed in NY Post Movie Guide in November, just to set the record straight as true as it can be. Please. please change the Overview. It also makes Cinema Treasures professional with facts updated when they are really incorrect.
In the mid 1900’s when I was Brooklyn theatre hopping, I indeed saw a facade saying Miller’s Capitol Theatre on it. It was boarded up but I didn’t see an the auditorium part of the building. The storefronts might have been there (all closed) but I can’t swear to that. The auditorium was razed, my picture doen’t show it and had been a large building (auditorium) as it shows in today’s upload. No marquee or vertical either. Just the lobby front was spared at that time. Bruce F. and myself saw it and he knew it was there.
F I N A L L Y! Thank you, how do you do the Texas 2 Step?
Notice the Fox logo in the James Bond (United Artists) double feature ad. I should become Frank Sinatra in “The Detective”.
To Mike, I know about the Doris Day series and all its' changing plotlines. Four Seasons in all, but television isn’t Tinseltown. Movies and TV shows are two different mediums. ….? Today, yesterday’s TV shows are todays movies and most should not see the light of theatres or TV screens. Nuff said. To Vindanpar, which title is racist? ? ?. P.S. They booked RCMH some garbage so they could close it down due to costs, as they did with the Roxy when RCMH operated it during the last years to get rid of their competition a block away. They succeded(sic) in 1958-59, the Roxy was closed and if a ploy works they used it again twenty years later with their own RCMH.
“Where Were You…..? didn’t sink her career as she knew herself that’s why she went out (Forgive the pun!) with her last film "With Six You Get Eggroll”, a better effort and swan song. Remember it was her no good husband who squandered her fortune, (Melcher) for you milleniums who may not know and the horrors of the Manson murders of Sharon Tate and all in the house that her son Terry owned or rented previously to the gruesome murder. She had enough of Tinseltown
It did well in the 5 or 6 week run, over $1,500.000, averaging 250,000 to 280,000 a week. That was great in those days with $1. price before 12 noon. “Where Were You…..?” did far less in Loew’s showcase run only lasting 1 week and 2 days. I saw it at the Loew’s Kings and 30 years later found the poster in the basement of the theatre glued on a poster that fit the one sheet frames of the Kings. A poster is 27"x41", Loew’s Kings frames were 30"x44". Yes, I do have the poster as it was the only one-sheet poster in the entire building. Loved the movie, have it on DVD (Swedish Version) with credits in Swedish and letterboxed at 1:85:1, originally filmed in Panavision 2:35:1. It’s uncut, good print and STILL not available in the U.S. C'mon fellas give a release already. Some people are waiting 51 years to see it again! I can’t believe it was only avaialable in VHS a short while in the 1990’s. Never shown on TCM either. “What’s Up Doc?”
Leon A Miller also was the architect for the South Bay Theatre in West Babylon and Tin North and Twin South in Hicksville. All theatres except South Bay where under the Town and Country Theatres and the South Bay Theatre was under the Imperial Banner. I had the privilege of knowing Mr. Miller personally as he visited the South Bay since builder, landlord and owner of the building to see if it was maintained by the lease-holders. He was well into hus early nineties and that was about ten years ago. A nice and warn gentleman who always remembered ny name and greeted me with respect. That’s missing today in all three venues I worked after leaving South Bay before it closed and still is. The South Bat in it’s day as a single theatre was a beautiful theatre. All his theatres are known for their stone use in the facades.
This is the RKO Strand in Far Rockaway, Queens, now demolished. The Brooklyn Strand is BRIC, it’s facade is on a corner on Fulton Street, sadly gutted and facade defaced by a horrible paint job, gray and white without considering the columns and the two mottos split in half grey top and white bottom, I believe.
Hey BigJoe'59 ….From Sept of 1973 to May of 75, all the downtowm theatres weroperating except the Fox, torn down within those months, the Paramount, Strand were closed in other uses. The Orpheum and Momart weretorn down in the early 1950’s. Loew’s and the RKO Albee, Duffield and Majestic were still open. You might be mistaking the Albemarle Theatre with the Albee. The Albemarle, Astor, Kings, Rialto (all Flatbush Ave.) and the Beverly, Kenmore and Granada (all Church Avenue) were all operating at this time. However the Kings and Rialto both closed on August 30 1977 along with the Astor. The Granada 1982, Albemarle in 1983 with the Beverly soon after. The RKO Kenmore was the holdout until 1999. Three of the Flatbush Avenue theatres all in a row are still intact… 1 for live shows and 2 as houses of worship. In order of condition it’s the Albemarle, Kings and the Rialto (the oldest at 103 years old looks like the day it opened (interior). The Albemarle is immaculately maintained inside and out (including power washing the bricks on the facade and side (every year!), the sidewalks and interior. No theatre gets that much tender loving care. I will not discuss the Kings for obvious reasons.
The movie is “Follow Me Boys” about boys camping outing, thus all the boys in their boy scouts' uniforms. The young men are not ready to “Follow The Boys” … yet.
My bank has a old photo of the block and the former Antoinette/Glenwood as a wedding facility called the _____ Terrace (Oops! the name escapes me, getting older is not what it used to be). I willpost the name in a few days and by the way it was a 1940’s photo. Also in the same photo is the Farragut Theatre, a little further north on Flatbush Ave. I guess being in the middle between the Century’s Farragut and College Theatres, the Glenwood had no chance of survival. Century Theatres had a monopoly on Flatbush Avenue with 6 theatres nestled from Midwood Street and the Junction. Name all six if you read this post. I gave you two.
“Mrs. Pollifax-Spy” was aired on TCM in letterbox no less, that’s where I copied most of my favorite unaired movies or not on VHS, DVD or Blue Ray. To this day, thet have not been re-broadcast on TCM either. When I saw it, it was the bottom of the bill with “What’s The Matter With Helen?”. IF UA-Tranamerica released “Pussycat, Pussycat I Love You” a 1970, six day engagement with Sat.-Mon. matinees of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, they can put out “Mrs. Pollifax-Spy”. I love all the movies that I listed in this post and realized that Ian McShane in 1969 was a very talented actor at that time (along with Jennifer Thompson) long, long before “Deadwood”.
as of June 30, 2019, thru a hole in the 181st entrance I caught a glimpse of the marble staircase which are awaiting…. the facade on 181st St. and the the angel’s face on Broadway also await. Windows, up above open exit doors are open to let the pigeons have their final days of their home also lost their lease. I will post again in two weeks… No walls have come down since my last post but the end is near… Goodbye RKO Coliseum. It lasted 99 years but won’t be for its' centennial. Like the Loew’s Victoria. A Dunkin Donuts is set to take over the corner.
Let me put my two cents in here, Mr. Vindanpar. The complete theatre exists behind the walls built forward on the sides and front of stage downstairs. The top procenium of theatre is viewed in the upstairs front stadium cinema and the entire ceiling details are seen in the entrances on both sides upstairs while the cinema ceilings of both upstairs cinemas are painted dark colors but the details can be seen. What I am saying is should the death nell happen to movies in the next ten years, the BAM Rose Cinemas can be put back intact as it was with the alterations removed. The theatre exists like the Loew’s Paradise in the Bronx which was twinned, tripled and quaded before it closed and is now is in it’s original 1929 opening single auditorium. Loew’s covered the original decor and was sensitive in its conversions and that’s why the Loew’s Paradise is a prime example for the BAM Rose Cinemas to follow.
A day early but, Happy 108th Birthday Palace Theatre, the first Orpheum Theatre built is still with us! A milestone for sure.
Mike (saps): Some things should be remembered for what they were and I am not upload saavy or own a computer. I have no use for it, but look at it this way… I don’t have to upload the photos of the way it looks now… no one should have to view this rape of a building again dot, dot, dot! Sorry for the delayed response. (Five months late).
I had to go to Boro Park yesterday and “Guess What?” While no one was watching the facade of this theatre was stripped of its' beautiful terra cotta arch windows, two lions' crests and roofline glazed terra cotta (in color) as well as all the brick work. Landlords always get away with anything they want instead of working it into the scheme of things. But then again this is Boro Park and that community is known for its' history or how to preserve it for they care not. Now the facade is plain grey and charcoal stripes. Horrendous and nauseating at the same time. At least in East New York they knew how to spare the four exterior walls and have some nostolgia for the former Loew’s Pitkin which leads into the shopping area. The former Loew’s 46th could have followed that example but did not. the “4515” shopping complex and apartment/condos lead the New Utrecht Avenue to the sleazy stores that line it from 45th St to 60th St. This area now looks worse than Pitkin Avenue in the 1970’s. No class in Boro Park. I will never look at or go there as long as I live. As the owner said “It’s only plaster inside”… and I’ll add “it’s only brick and mortar on the outside” Goodbye 46th Street Theatre, you will only live here at Cinema Treasures!
I have several original copies of this of this flyer given out at all RKO Theatres. These flyers were found at The Prospect Theatre in Brooklyn. Sorry, not for sale!
Used in “Midnight Cowboy”, (1969), opening credits with John Wayne movie on marquee when Joe Buck (Jon Voight) walks by leaving town for NYC. (Movie was The Alamo)
Yes, as a member of the congregation, they allowed me to bring Matt Lambros in to see it. He took pictures which were to be for his private use only and then posted them here without asking. The sanctuaries are private. The church elders were not happy with this. Because of this, they will not let me bring in guests to show the interior. Two interior shots were posted here and I ask cinema treasures to delete the Matt Lambros photos as soon as possible. By the way, Happy belated 103 anniversary!!
It started movie life as The Festival – A Walter Reade Theatre.
as of May 5, 2019, there are no posted permits for demolition on any part of the exterior of the former Coliseum. Scaffolding is limited to the first story of the structure and “el raton” abatements (raton hotels) along 181st St. and Broadway perimeters of the building. Like the Loew’s Victoria, the building will be demolished on it’s centennial. This still leeaves the Regent and the decrepit Hamilton and the newer former RKO 23rd Street as the companies leftover legacies. P.S. and the Marble Hill if that’s still standing even though a Bronx location. Still painful to see the longest running RKO venue in the borough go. The last to carry the RKO name and (vertical RKO sign on 181st Street into the 2000’s.
A faux pas. The theatre was used for the filming of “They Might Be Giants” with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward filmed in 1971 and released in 1972. You get to see the balcony, the two stars, an usher and a bag lady… just the clientle the theatre was drawing in its' last days. However when the enter the theatre, the New Amsterdam on 42nd street, and exit it this gem filled in for the open theatre and from there the two stars walk to Broadway. The film didn’t fair well at the box-office despite the two Academy Award stars, being a Newman-Foreman production. It was quite fun to watch and the TV version ending was slighly altered. it was first run in a Manhattan theatre and then doubled up with “The Hired Hand” for its' RKO Showcase Presentation first run and only seen by very few. At the Granada in Booklyn it was on the bottom of a double bill with “Mary, Queen Of Scots”. While “Mary” was on % 40-60 (Underbelly in movie house lingo in the theatre’s favor, the 2nd feature “Giants” was booked at $50.00! plus tax. And that’s the way it was in 1972. As far as the Fox it was demolished in 1972-73 time frame. The offices would have made great condos at 14 floors of space as the buildings now!!!! Quelle domage……
Correcting myself… the Palace opened in 1915, forgive typo in last post
Overview should be changed to “closed in November 1971 with the final film being "SHAFT” and “THE SPLIT” with Jim Brown". Late sixties can be construed to any date after January 1968. The Palace which opened in 1925 closed in 1969/70 making it the longest in business. The Palace played “Planet Of The Apes” in ‘68 and “The Detective” in late '69 listed in NY Post Movie Guide in November, just to set the record straight as true as it can be. Please. please change the Overview. It also makes Cinema Treasures professional with facts updated when they are really incorrect.
In the mid 1900’s when I was Brooklyn theatre hopping, I indeed saw a facade saying Miller’s Capitol Theatre on it. It was boarded up but I didn’t see an the auditorium part of the building. The storefronts might have been there (all closed) but I can’t swear to that. The auditorium was razed, my picture doen’t show it and had been a large building (auditorium) as it shows in today’s upload. No marquee or vertical either. Just the lobby front was spared at that time. Bruce F. and myself saw it and he knew it was there.