Century’s Meadows is at left, adjacent to white brick Horn & Hardart Restaurant. Construction for the Long Island Expressway had yet to reach the area served by Horace Harding Boulevard. Large branch store of Bloomingdale’s faces 188th Street.
The New York Mets had amazed fans by winning the National League Pennant and would go on to trample the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series of Baseball.
The Patio had five acts of vaudeville on Saturday & Sunday, but none famous enough to be listed…The ad covers only Brooklyn. Century had additional theatres in Queens and Long Island.
The largest single-screen cinema built in the NYC borough of Queens after the end of WW2 will be 70 years old in November of this year. Many photos taken by patrons of the current multiplex can be viewed here
Curiously, the distributor was preparing to open his own midtown cinema in December of that year on nearby 54th Street, but I guess that “The Christmas Tree” was too important a movie to postpone until then.
112 uploads yesterday by this person, mostly of generic posters and magazine covers, and totally undated. What is the purpose of all this?
CT is supposed to be a website about movie theatres, not movies themselves. There are other websites for that type of uploading.
The new Grand was launched by the Van Nomikos Circuit, which was predominantly neighborhood sites including the Ace, Lincoln, Parkway, Rex, City, and Empress. Less than a year later, RKO Theatres expressed interest in the Grand, and Van Nomikos sold them the management lease for 13 years, with a profits-sharing arrangement, according to trade reports.
Those who remember the Midway Theatre as a modernistic masterwork by Thomas W. Lamb will probably experience extreme nausea when viewing these recent images snapped by patrons. Click here
Published on September 23rd, when the Music Hall was still doing well with “Roman Holiday,‘ which had opened on August 27th. Both features, of course, were accompanied by stage revues.
A full-page ad in Friday’s New York Times had the new “Downton Abbey” feature opening at 18 locations in Manhattan, as well as “in theaters everywhere.” Presumably not every “screen” at those Manhattan locations was booked with “Downton Abbey.” But I was surprised to see that both sides of West 42nd Street are included with the AMC Empire 25 and the Regal E-Walk Stadium 13 & RPX.
The B&W drama was already in its world premiere engagement in NYC at the Astor Theatre, also as a reserved-seat roadshow. Both bookings are cited in the MGM trailer displayed here
The reserved-seat roadshow policy was a “first” for a release by Republic Pictures, which was determined to rise from the ranks of minor-league studios.
Tomorrow night’s 50th Anniversary Celebration of “Easy Rider” (9/20/19) will go on as scheduled at Radio City Music Hall, but with a tribute to the life and legacy of Peter Fonda added. Update here
The Cinerama presentation was in the Transportation & Travel Pavilion, a huge domed building that has since been demolished.
Can’t answer, but ad does not proclaim “Nothing Cut But the Prices,” which was often done during such bookings.
Century’s Meadows is at left, adjacent to white brick Horn & Hardart Restaurant. Construction for the Long Island Expressway had yet to reach the area served by Horace Harding Boulevard. Large branch store of Bloomingdale’s faces 188th Street.
That was previously uploaded by a member who removed it when they departed from the website. Their camera statistics are still displayed.
Still on Broadway, but two blocks south from the Rivoli at the RKO Palace.
The New York Mets had amazed fans by winning the National League Pennant and would go on to trample the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series of Baseball.
The Patio had five acts of vaudeville on Saturday & Sunday, but none famous enough to be listed…The ad covers only Brooklyn. Century had additional theatres in Queens and Long Island.
The largest single-screen cinema built in the NYC borough of Queens after the end of WW2 will be 70 years old in November of this year. Many photos taken by patrons of the current multiplex can be viewed here
Curiously, the distributor was preparing to open his own midtown cinema in December of that year on nearby 54th Street, but I guess that “The Christmas Tree” was too important a movie to postpone until then.
Here’s a link to The Hollywood Reporter’s review of the 50th Anniversary Tribute to “Easy Rider” at RCMH last week. View
112 uploads yesterday by this person, mostly of generic posters and magazine covers, and totally undated. What is the purpose of all this? CT is supposed to be a website about movie theatres, not movies themselves. There are other websites for that type of uploading.
The new Grand was launched by the Van Nomikos Circuit, which was predominantly neighborhood sites including the Ace, Lincoln, Parkway, Rex, City, and Empress. Less than a year later, RKO Theatres expressed interest in the Grand, and Van Nomikos sold them the management lease for 13 years, with a profits-sharing arrangement, according to trade reports.
Modernized playhouse re-opened on September 26th, 1942, with a policy of first-run double features plus a compilation of the latest newsreels.
This is a generic distributor’s poster. Are we to assume that “Anastasia” played at the Bali? No date provided.
Paramount’s Technicolor reissue package had a total running time of four hours and six minutes.
Those who remember the Midway Theatre as a modernistic masterwork by Thomas W. Lamb will probably experience extreme nausea when viewing these recent images snapped by patrons. Click here
So why hasn’t the problem been fixed by now?
Wasn’t the Roxy close enough to the Music Hall to be listed as a “nearby” theater? Certainly closer than the currently cited World and Belmont.
Published on September 23rd, when the Music Hall was still doing well with “Roman Holiday,‘ which had opened on August 27th. Both features, of course, were accompanied by stage revues.
A full-page ad in Friday’s New York Times had the new “Downton Abbey” feature opening at 18 locations in Manhattan, as well as “in theaters everywhere.” Presumably not every “screen” at those Manhattan locations was booked with “Downton Abbey.” But I was surprised to see that both sides of West 42nd Street are included with the AMC Empire 25 and the Regal E-Walk Stadium 13 & RPX.
Due to late-run status, the Bliss often combined features that had topped the double bills on the Loew’s and RKO circuits.
The B&W drama was already in its world premiere engagement in NYC at the Astor Theatre, also as a reserved-seat roadshow. Both bookings are cited in the MGM trailer displayed here
The reserved-seat roadshow policy was a “first” for a release by Republic Pictures, which was determined to rise from the ranks of minor-league studios.
Tomorrow night’s 50th Anniversary Celebration of “Easy Rider” (9/20/19) will go on as scheduled at Radio City Music Hall, but with a tribute to the life and legacy of Peter Fonda added. Update here
For lack of air-conditioning, the old-timer had been closed for the summer, but promised some sizzling fare as outdoor temperatures dropped.