Wow. You can determine the sexual inclinations of men from just looking at an 85 year old photograph? Fabulous gaydar!
My guess is that they are studio heads and members of the press who were mostly men at the time. As for their sexual habits, I’ll leave that to more talented contributors.
“A Woman’s Face” was a first-run move-over from the Capitol and this was the first suburban run of the film, with “Washington Melodrama†as a co-feature. The run included the Loews Jersey City and Newark theatres but since it ran for record three weeks it overlapped with the circuit break.
The Gala Twin opened in 1972 as a subrun house but quickly switched to porn when it stumbled onto DEEP THROAT which had recently been banned from Miami Beach’s Sheridan. Located in an incorporated part of Dade County, no city official had the jurisdiction to shut the Gala down.
CO was not above opening screens as they were finished while still in construction on others.
The project ran late and distributors felt the location was too far out west (duh) and didn’t want to risk exclusives of their movies in the zone, so getting first-runs was a problem.
CO was forced to day-date this with the Times Square Warner on “Uncle Buck” and the Warner proved the World Wide was redundant. Universal owned 50% of CO by then so they continued to cooperate for a while.
Since QUEEN CHRISTINA premiered on December 26 and that photo shows a Roll Royce in front, this is most likely a shot of the World Premier crowd and hardly representative of the the average movie-goer in 1933.
This opened as the Fine Arts in 1963 with Jewish Vaudeville and a movie. It slowly moved to burlesque and soft-core porn films and was the 21st Street theatre by 1969.
The AMC exit escalators appear to have been designed to move the exiting crowd away from the main building in case of fire. The large “holding” areas in between are supposed to handle the overflow when the escalators back up. Human nature is to huddle around the escalator instead, causing a dangerous result.
The buildings department often demand designs that do not conform with human nature. I often experienced this on new builds in NY. Consider the safe distance of the entrance escalators on each floor compared to the exits.
MarkieS, I disagree that escalators are made to stand still. Don’t you get annoyed by people who block the people movers at airports with luggage and stand still?
Wow. You can determine the sexual inclinations of men from just looking at an 85 year old photograph? Fabulous gaydar!
My guess is that they are studio heads and members of the press who were mostly men at the time. As for their sexual habits, I’ll leave that to more talented contributors.
…at the theatre this page is about.
“They called her the scarfaced she-devil!”
“A Woman’s Face” was a first-run move-over from the Capitol and this was the first suburban run of the film, with “Washington Melodrama†as a co-feature. The run included the Loews Jersey City and Newark theatres but since it ran for record three weeks it overlapped with the circuit break.
The 44th Street roof showed movies in 1920 as the NORA BAYES.
This was called the Capitol from 1972-1974.
Also known as the Merry Go Round as both theatre and cinema.
Suniland becomes a twin.
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Here is a Star Twin ad. I have not added the theatre since I cannot find an actual address.
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I don’t recall this ever being known just as the 183rd street. It did open as the Jerry Lewis Cinema in 1972.
The Gala Twin opened in 1972 as a subrun house but quickly switched to porn when it stumbled onto DEEP THROAT which had recently been banned from Miami Beach’s Sheridan. Located in an incorporated part of Dade County, no city official had the jurisdiction to shut the Gala down.
I think this was the New King when it tried running blaxploitaion in 1972.
“…or just about every movie that Barbra Streisand ever made.”
How quickly you forget “FUNNY GIRL” and “WHAT’S UP, DOC?”, two classics that have outlived any silly BATMAN movie so far.
CO was not above opening screens as they were finished while still in construction on others.
The project ran late and distributors felt the location was too far out west (duh) and didn’t want to risk exclusives of their movies in the zone, so getting first-runs was a problem.
CO was forced to day-date this with the Times Square Warner on “Uncle Buck” and the Warner proved the World Wide was redundant. Universal owned 50% of CO by then so they continued to cooperate for a while.
Since QUEEN CHRISTINA premiered on December 26 and that photo shows a Roll Royce in front, this is most likely a shot of the World Premier crowd and hardly representative of the the average movie-goer in 1933.
I believe this was last known as Radio Centro.
This theatre is already listed as the Rio, its last name.
This opened as the Fine Arts in 1963 with Jewish Vaudeville and a movie. It slowly moved to burlesque and soft-core porn films and was the 21st Street theatre by 1969.
Not in Florida. I saw it at the Golden Glades Drive-In first run.
This was also the location for the Bard theatre which ran movies as well as live burlesque in the late fifties.
This location one housed the Little River theatre. I am unsure if it is the same building.
I believe this was the largest drive-in in the country for a while.
The full address for this drive-in was 7080 Coral Way.
This being 42nd street, I’m not so sure I want to find those stairs.
I agree. “Titanic” had little girls going back to see DiCaprio for a year. TDK will be out on DVD by Thanksgiving.
The AMC exit escalators appear to have been designed to move the exiting crowd away from the main building in case of fire. The large “holding” areas in between are supposed to handle the overflow when the escalators back up. Human nature is to huddle around the escalator instead, causing a dangerous result.
The buildings department often demand designs that do not conform with human nature. I often experienced this on new builds in NY. Consider the safe distance of the entrance escalators on each floor compared to the exits.
MarkieS, I disagree that escalators are made to stand still. Don’t you get annoyed by people who block the people movers at airports with luggage and stand still?