By the way Robert, Cinema 16 was a club that screened films at different venues all over Manhattan. “Pandora’s Box” may well have shown at the Thalia through Cinema 16 in the fifties and sixties.
The Capitol was the Loews Cinerama from August 1962 to November 1964. The only non-Cinerama run under that name was a popular price run of “THE CARDINAL”. After it returned to the Capitol name it was advertised as the Loews Capitol Cinerama for Cinerama runs only.
I have not found any evidence of fraud charges and suspect Loews was just doing the right thing.
Radio City was never built as a movie palace. The Roxy (Center) was the failed movie palace. Radio City was built as a Music Hall and settled for movies when music shows failed.
Nickelodeons did not first start in New York City but in cities like Pittsburgh and Chicago. New York was not the birthplace of film exhibition.
The New York boom was centered between Park Row and The Bowery in Manhattan where over two dozen operated by 1906 to service the crowded lower east side tenements.
“If we continually rob those who are successful and give it to those who aren’t, then we stifle growth and innovation.”
..and if you continually rob those who aren’t successful, you have no buyers."
Even conservative right wing Henry Ford understood that an employee paid a fair wage might buy a car. Why do conservatives fail to understand that basic capitalist idea today?
CWalcak, most classic theatres that operate as multiplexes today have little or nothing left of the original interior shell.
Nope. “PLANET OF THE APES”.
This theatre opened in July 2000, so the tenth anniversary was two months ago.
By the way Robert, Cinema 16 was a club that screened films at different venues all over Manhattan. “Pandora’s Box” may well have shown at the Thalia through Cinema 16 in the fifties and sixties.
It was shown as “LULU”.
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Robert,
The Thalia ran some Pabst films in 1952 and 1960.
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Thank you Joe. These images appear to be rare.
According to the book “ A Journey Into Dorothy Parker’s New York” (2005, Kevin C. Fitzpatrick), the New Amsterdam closed as a movie house in 1985.
The Cosmo is listed.
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Larry Peerce directed “GOODBYE, COLUMBUS”. Arthur Hiller directed the blockbuster “LOVE STORY”.
Yes, Bway. The one behind it is the Venice.
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The Capitol was the Loews Cinerama from August 1962 to November 1964. The only non-Cinerama run under that name was a popular price run of “THE CARDINAL”. After it returned to the Capitol name it was advertised as the Loews Capitol Cinerama for Cinerama runs only.
I have not found any evidence of fraud charges and suspect Loews was just doing the right thing.
Only the facade was kept for the multiplex conversion. The rest of the building was new including the gutted out basement.
This theatre’s name needs to be updated.
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I wish them the best of luck but wasn’t the nearby Mercury/Soyka a bust with the same programming idea?
Now showing “HUBBLE 3D” and advertising with other commercial runs as the American Museum of Natural History Imax.
Radio City was never built as a movie palace. The Roxy (Center) was the failed movie palace. Radio City was built as a Music Hall and settled for movies when music shows failed.
Nickelodeons did not first start in New York City but in cities like Pittsburgh and Chicago. New York was not the birthplace of film exhibition.
The New York boom was centered between Park Row and The Bowery in Manhattan where over two dozen operated by 1906 to service the crowded lower east side tenements.
“If we continually rob those who are successful and give it to those who aren’t, then we stifle growth and innovation.”
..and if you continually rob those who aren’t successful, you have no buyers."
Even conservative right wing Henry Ford understood that an employee paid a fair wage might buy a car. Why do conservatives fail to understand that basic capitalist idea today?
Thank God the foreign markets had some sense.
…in 1971.
Stan, the RKO 86th Street re-opened as a twin in
Joe, those dates are indeed correct. I still worked for them at the time.
Here is the Miami exile version:
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A sequel would soon follow (direct to DVD…)
Is 64 years really “soon”?