In regard to Giles comment above, Landmark’s web page for this cinema states (as I included in the Intro):
Eight auditoriums, seven of which feature stadium seating and wall-to-wall screens
Comments on the Demille (Embassy 1, 2, 3) theater page reported it had been gutted.
I also would prefer to see theaters as theaters. I just don’t count on reopening closed theaters as single screen movie theaters.
Luis,
Nice fantasy. We hear it so many times (Embassy 1,2,3…..Cape May’s Beach……etc) but it isn’t realistic. And, as Intro says “little or no lobby” this one hardly sounds like a movie palace to me!
Today’s Senator email also announced:
We’re opening up The Senator’s back rooms!
Don’t miss your chance to own a piece of Senator Theatre history
Starting this Friday, April 3rd @ 1pm, a wide variety of Senator Theatre
memorabilia, including: film posters, banners, t-shirts, standees,
film reels, press books, vintage projection equipment, marquee
letters, large marquee signs from past premieres and more,
will fill our lobby spaces for your perusal and purchase.
Thousands of these items will be placed on sale
in the next few weeks, lobby space permitting.
And, today’s Senator email announced This Weekend The Senator Has Scheduled Two Classic Films Presented With Rare Original “I.B.Technicolor” 35mm Prints
Cabaret (1972) and Horror of Dracula (1958)
JodarMovieFan, today, I provided the changed status for the Rotunda, because the article says so. But, when the Senator ceased showing “Watchmen” the email stated there would be a final series, of classics. Let’s wait and see.
I know what you are trying to do. You evidently don’t know who I am & what I’ve been doing for 7 years as a volunteer(hint: www.FriendsOftheBoyd.org))
Reply: ask for funds from people you know, and get in the newspapers with the box “send funds to….” Affiliate with a nonprofit that can give tax deductions for those funds you will be raising.
25 July 1953 Box Office stated it was to be converted into a farmers market.
11 July 1953 Box Office says former 333 sold by Stanley Warner to a company that seemed, from its name, that it would use the lot for parking.
11 July 1953 Box Office says then it shuttered.
Did anybody see “The Lion in Winter”? How was the print, especially the color?
The Senator is now showing 1937 A Star is Born and other classic films including Night of the Living Dead (Romero) and Help!
the posting-
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This posting says it was demolished around 1971.
There’s also IB Technicolor showings of Charade.
Photo my father took circa 1955. (My scan of the slide)
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Yes, last Friday, “Paris 36” followed “The Reader”
In regard to Giles comment above, Landmark’s web page for this cinema states (as I included in the Intro):
Eight auditoriums, seven of which feature stadium seating and wall-to-wall screens
Clearview’s website now lists only 3 NYC theaters: Ziegfeld, Chelsea, and First and 62nd Street.
Comments on the Demille (Embassy 1, 2, 3) theater page reported it had been gutted.
I also would prefer to see theaters as theaters. I just don’t count on reopening closed theaters as single screen movie theaters.
Luis,
Nice fantasy. We hear it so many times (Embassy 1,2,3…..Cape May’s Beach……etc) but it isn’t realistic. And, as Intro says “little or no lobby” this one hardly sounds like a movie palace to me!
Today’s Senator email also announced:
We’re opening up The Senator’s back rooms!
Don’t miss your chance to own a piece of Senator Theatre history
Starting this Friday, April 3rd @ 1pm, a wide variety of Senator Theatre
memorabilia, including: film posters, banners, t-shirts, standees,
film reels, press books, vintage projection equipment, marquee
letters, large marquee signs from past premieres and more,
will fill our lobby spaces for your perusal and purchase.
Thousands of these items will be placed on sale
in the next few weeks, lobby space permitting.
All sales final ~ cash or check only
And, today’s Senator email announced This Weekend The Senator Has Scheduled Two Classic Films Presented With Rare Original “I.B.Technicolor” 35mm Prints
Cabaret (1972) and Horror of Dracula (1958)
In the Philadelphia area, nobody has better movie projection than the Bridge (at Penn). I hope Ntl Amusements does not sell the lease!
This photo, too, from same time:
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Photo August 2008, apparently abandoned:
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JodarMovieFan, today, I provided the changed status for the Rotunda, because the article says so. But, when the Senator ceased showing “Watchmen” the email stated there would be a final series, of classics. Let’s wait and see.
“The Reader” continues a long run here, having begun December 10.
Let’s try that link again
www.FriendsOfTheBoyd.org
I know what you are trying to do. You evidently don’t know who I am & what I’ve been doing for 7 years as a volunteer(hint: www.FriendsOftheBoyd.org))
Reply: ask for funds from people you know, and get in the newspapers with the box “send funds to….” Affiliate with a nonprofit that can give tax deductions for those funds you will be raising.
Best of luck.
I don’t understand why an owner would donate the thaeter and land to the City so an office building or any other private development would be built?
Theaters are sometimes donated to government or nonprofit so they can be saved!
Refurbished restrooms will be wonderful indeed.