You still have to be careful what you allow in. Fried chicken bones and potato chips can play havoc in an auditorium and you will lose just as many customers if you have no rules.
Those big coats also hide guns, beer and whiskey at the kid shows. Shopping bags can include pets, pet food (live crickets), and bombs. When we started checking we found all of the above.
Marcus Loew said “This is the most pretentious of the houses on our string, because my better judgment was over-balanced by my sentimentalism and my longing to do something better here than I ever did before.”
Up to the 1930’s “pretentious” meant “luxurious” and did not have the negative connotations assigned to the word today.
If you check out the website, the $30 tickets are the cheap seats on the sides and back of the auditoriums. Top price in NYC is still around $9 for a child and Clearview is not selling tickets, so I suspect a Disney four-wall gouge fest.
Those are not really movie grosses. The $50 tickets include Mardi Gras Beads, an Exclusive Limited Edition Collectible Lithograph and the Ultimate Disney Experience at the Roseland Ballroom after the movie.
Reminds me of when we sold “DICK TRACY” T-shirts as part the midnight previews to jack up the opening grosses for that stinker.
The old Miami opened in 1937 and became the Town in 1946 when the Miami above was about to open, according to Boxoffice Magazine.
I previously suspected there may have been another silent House called Miami in that still standing tall Hotel building in the postcards but have record of one.
Thanks, Ken! Reminds me of New York where Cinema 3, a single screen inside the Plaza Hotel, was blocks away from Cinema I & II and it got even stranger when separate companies operated the two locations. The matter was further complicated by the Plaza Theatre located between the two, making it a scavenger hunt for tourists trying to find their movie.
Well, good films open and close immediately in NYC once that is in the ad. Avoid Magnolia Six Shooter Films like the plague. They kill them before they open.
I recently saw “THIS IS IT” and “PRECIOUS” with disrespectful boisterous audiences in Times Square. Both were weekday matinee performances and both were sold out.
This is the same old argument of “no one goes anymore because it is too crowded”.
Distributors have been stupidly undermining the theatre business for years without success. Nothing says “this movie sucks” as efficiently as the term “also available on VIDEO ON DEMAND”.
Next time you are asked to pay $8.50 for a hot dog, blame this silly bitch, not Cinemark. All stupid criminals cost all of us.
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No one has ever successfully sued a theatre for not allowing outside food and won.
Theatres can allow what they please inside as long as they are consistent and do not discriminate. They are NOT public spaces.
Remember those discount theatres with discount concession stands? Probably not. They are, with rare exceptions, out of business.
Try bringing your popcorn into a Broadway show or a Yankee game next time. And their snack bars make AMC and Regal a bargain.
I wish to thank those chains in advance for trying to keep their theatres clean and their businesses open and profitable.
Oh, I forgot the video recorder, complete with tripod.
You still have to be careful what you allow in. Fried chicken bones and potato chips can play havoc in an auditorium and you will lose just as many customers if you have no rules.
Those big coats also hide guns, beer and whiskey at the kid shows. Shopping bags can include pets, pet food (live crickets), and bombs. When we started checking we found all of the above.
The New 42nd Street Project would be a start.
http://www.new42.org/about_history_times.cfm
From the 2005 post above:
Marcus Loew said “This is the most pretentious of the houses on our string, because my better judgment was over-balanced by my sentimentalism and my longing to do something better here than I ever did before.”
Up to the 1930’s “pretentious” meant “luxurious” and did not have the negative connotations assigned to the word today.
If you check out the website, the $30 tickets are the cheap seats on the sides and back of the auditoriums. Top price in NYC is still around $9 for a child and Clearview is not selling tickets, so I suspect a Disney four-wall gouge fest.
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Those are not really movie grosses. The $50 tickets include Mardi Gras Beads, an Exclusive Limited Edition Collectible Lithograph and the Ultimate Disney Experience at the Roseland Ballroom after the movie.
Reminds me of when we sold “DICK TRACY” T-shirts as part the midnight previews to jack up the opening grosses for that stinker.
The Valentino name started at the 1993 re-opening.
Louis,
The old Miami opened in 1937 and became the Town in 1946 when the Miami above was about to open, according to Boxoffice Magazine.
I previously suspected there may have been another silent House called Miami in that still standing tall Hotel building in the postcards but have record of one.
Thanks, Ken! Reminds me of New York where Cinema 3, a single screen inside the Plaza Hotel, was blocks away from Cinema I & II and it got even stranger when separate companies operated the two locations. The matter was further complicated by the Plaza Theatre located between the two, making it a scavenger hunt for tourists trying to find their movie.
Ken, where were Studios 1-5?
Well, good films open and close immediately in NYC once that is in the ad. Avoid Magnolia Six Shooter Films like the plague. They kill them before they open.
The 1942 Film Daily Year Book lists this (perhaps erroneously)as an RKO location.
This is listed as the AIR LINES theatre in the 1942 Film daily Year Book.
I recently saw “THIS IS IT” and “PRECIOUS” with disrespectful boisterous audiences in Times Square. Both were weekday matinee performances and both were sold out.
This is the same old argument of “no one goes anymore because it is too crowded”.
Distributors have been stupidly undermining the theatre business for years without success. Nothing says “this movie sucks” as efficiently as the term “also available on VIDEO ON DEMAND”.
This was already listed as a movie house in the 1937 Film Daily Year Book.
This is already listed as the Victory in the 1937 Film Daily Year Book.
This theatre is listed as open in the 1937 Film Daily Year Book.
Listed in the 1937 Film Daily Year Book as the closed Town Playhouse.
The new Paramount Hotel and theatre post card.
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The 1937 Film Daily Yearbook lists as De Luxe theatre at 125th street and St. Nicholas. I suspect it was this site as the Sunset is listed as well.
This showed movies as the Princess in 1915-1916.
My mistake, it is listed as the Rexy.
This is listed in the 1937 Film Daily Yearbook as the closed Roxy.