why did you call it steak?? more like shoe leather.? but it was a great
storefront, great smell from the coals........cafeteria style.
it was called TADS.? many in nyc.??
i think?the main clientele were tourists.? i believe i only ate there once as a
kid with my family.
there, also, used to be 99cent spaghetti restaurants.
michael?
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From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Sat, Jun 20, 2009 4:01 pm
Subject: Re: [MOPO] NEW YORK THEATERS
Michael
what was the name of that small chain in Manhattan? where you could get a lunch
steak.
They used to have a grill in the window and you could order either a New York
strip, a sirloin or a hamburger steak
At 12:47 PM 6/20/2009, Michael B wrote:
THE AUTOMAT.
THAT TOUCH OF MINK, 1962, featured that restaurant.? jane meadows worked
there.? doris day and cary grant starred.
?
michael
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Sent: Sat, Jun 20, 2009 3:43 pm
Subject: Re: [MOPO] NEW YORK THEATERS
Hey,
I remember going to a restaurant and you put coins in a slot, opened the little
glass door and took out a sandwich or a piece of cake. What were those called?
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From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] NEW YORK THEATERS
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 3:18 PM
Times Square was one of the most interesting places on Earth for many years.
I always liked it because it was an anachronism of life..
in the winter a limousine could be dropping off a guy in $1000 tailored suit
with a fur-coated babe on each arm and they might have to step over a homeless
guy sleeping on the subway grating (warm air comes up through the gratings),
there would be a couple society ladies headed up to Broadway to see a play and
then a couple hookers rousting a guy while a couple dopers would be buying from
a pusher. Every kind of person you could imagine was standing on that street
trying to make plans
One of the most obvious places was? a pinball & later video game parlor called
Fascination and Melody Burlesque was down the street.
There were several theatres showing Kung-Fu flicks and to this day I have never
been able to find a copy of one of my favorites - Mad Monkey Kung-Fu. I
remember seeing it on a double bill with the 12 Drunken Masters
In front of some of the theatres were hawkers trying to get you in and there
was the porno bookstore on ground level that had the private booths upstairs.
All the babes would be advertising to get you to walk into "their booth" for a
show. I remember running into a comic book dealer friend up there once and even
though he was a buddy, he was so embarassed he left almost immediately
There was a Howard Johnsons and if I remember correctly Dempsey's too. I think
Dempseys had a sign that told you how great their pie was and there was a
Nathan's hot dogs joint. I was surprised on more than one occasion to see Carol
Channing, Walter Cronkite (Walter is about to take his last breath folks) or
other actors there. Once - and this would be specifically be 1978 because of
the girlfriend I was with - we were having milkshakes and Will Geer sat down at
our table (Nathan's had those long 16 people tables). I asked him for his
autograph and he said "Sure. Just let me finish my hot dog".
I know I had seen teh flea circus that Richard Del Belso mentioned, but I was
pretty young. Maybe 5-6, so I don't recall any of it
sadly, all of this is gone now.. Left in our collective memories which will
also be gone to the black hole at some point and all that will remain will be
pictures.
I lived in Queens and the theatre I most often went to as a kid & young teen
was the Lefferts Theatre on Lefferts Boulevard and 120th street. I remember
seeing a double bill Hard Day's Night & HELP! in 1965. I was with my 2 brothers
(I was 8, my brothers 10 & 11). Before the movie they had the Dave Clark 5
short, Manfred Mann and some others and outside they had scads of posters
including the billboard on the side of the building that was 120th st. The
Beatles heads were enormous. They also had freebies like a beatles wig and
stuff. It was a big weekend and the theatre was jam packed and if I remember
correctly, it was just 75 cents!! We were there all day long. Nobody chased us
out after the first feature. Not too long ago I was able to score the Dave
Clark 5 1sh that was displayed. The theatre was great - they had stills and
posters and lobby cards all over the outside and on the inside too.
the Lefferts was a fun theatre too. Saturdays always had matinees and they may
have been just a quarter. Always a double bill, cartoons, in the mid-60s they
showed the Superman, Batman, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials - one episode
of Batman and Supe or later Flash & Buck each week and you got a little wallet
card they would punch out. If you saw episodes 1-11, you got to see episode 12
for free (I guess that meant we got in free that week period)
across the street and down a block or so was Uncle Jack's toy shop. I bought
all the Aurora monster kits there and the old man was as nice as anyone you
could meet. If he didn't have the toy or model you wanted, he would order it
for you for a 10 cent deposit and seeing as he didn't have the Bride of
Frankenstein model kit in stock, I ordered that one. Sometime in the late 60s I
remember the shop was closed for a few days because a couple junkies had robbed
& beaten him
also, Bruce is right.. at 8-9-10-11, we used to get on the subway by ourselves
and go all the way to Manhattan. When I was 9 I took the trains all the way up
to the Bronx - by myself - with $100 cash that I had made selling comics - to
go to a guy's house who was a friend of Gary Dolgoff so I could buy early
Marvels. I came back - again, all by myself - with 2 shopping bags full of
comics. I don't think anyone bothered me. I also used to take the trains
regularly at that age to go to the Museum of Natural History on 79th street in
Manhattan because I was in love with dinosaurs and they had the best exhibit of
fossils and the rooms with live lizards were totally kick-ass.
NYC was lots of fun back in those days, but I haven't been back since 1992 or
93, even though I've been planning on going for a visit for some years. The
first place I'm going to head to os Katz's Delicatessen on Houston St and have
some corn beef, some of their hand made hotdogs and a potato kanish
Rich
At 08:03 AM 6/20/2009, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
Richard
?
One of the great disappointments of my childhood was when my uncle (a weird guy
and the highlight of my childhood) promised to take me to HUBERT'S FLEA CIRCUS.
It must have been around 1964 or 1965 when I was around 11 or 12.
?
I was really excited, and I met him at Penn Station (my parents used to let the
11 year old me go by myself to Manhattan, where strikes me as crazy in
retrospect), and we went to Times Square, and if I remember right it was in the
basement of some building, but the flea circus was gone (although the sign was
still there).
?
So I never did get to see those trained fleas!
?
Bruce
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Richard Del Belso <rdel...@msn.com> wrote:
Bruce, claude...
The "art house" on 42nd street back in the day was called the Apollo. I used to
go there late at night, after doing my college homework, and see double bills
of old Ingmar Bergman movies, like THE NAKED NIGHT and MONIKA. It? was a "grind
house'..just kept repeating the shows all day and all night. The Theater is
still there but It has been converted into a legitimate playhouse now, under a
different name, repudiating its somewhat unsavory past. So has the theater next
door, the Victory.
Across the street is the New Amsterdam , which was originally used as a legit
theater for the Ziegfeld Follies. When I was in college, it had fallen into
disrepair and was just another grind house showing third-run American movies
and exploitation films...but signs of its former glory were still visible.
After almost falling apart, the theater was beautifully restored and the
musical version of THE LION KING was installed there. I think disney put up a
lot of the money for the restoration, as they did in LA for the El Capitan.
Around 1960, i once went down to the penny arcade on the corner of 42nd St. and
Broadway to see the flea circus. Yes, it was a real flea circus (HUBERT'S FLEA
CIRCUS) where the guy had put thin-stretched strands of gold wire around the
necks of these tiny fleas, which he kept in a box filled with cotton wadding.
he could pick them up by the wire, and then attach them to toy chariots to
stage a chariot race, or turn them upside down and place balsa wood balls on
their legs to stage a 'who can kick the ball farthest" contest. he also had cut
out tiny paper triangular costumes in different colors and placed one over each
flea. the fleas wold then naturally start to jump, and the costumes would
wriggle, which, when set to music, became 'the dancing fleas". The cost for
this never-to-be-forgotten display of weirdness? One quarter!
Ah, New York, New York. I'm with Claude...a total New York-o-phile. but I had
to move to LA in 1976, and I have to admit it's pretty nice there,
too...Academy screening are one of the nicest things about life here.
ciao for now...
? Richard
Richard Del Belso
?
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:32:37 -0400
From: twoni...@aol.com
Subject: Re: [MOPO] NEW YORK THEATERS
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
In the 70's there were a huge amount of those theaters and peep shows in that
area.? This went from 8th Ave to 6th Ave and from 40th St to 50th St.? There
were also a huge amount of street walkers hanging around all the theaters and
they were very dangerous if you were not polite.? I remember when one man was
approached and instead of saying "no thanks" called her a whore.? She stabbed
him right in broad daylight.
?
In my college years I went to a theater on 86th St. where they only showed
films in German.? I used to go on Fridays when classes ended early.? 86th St.?
was known as Germantown.? We went to a famous German restaurant there when I
graduated from law school.? I don't recall the name.? The real estate boom also
killed the area and the developers moved in.? Today it hardly exists.? This is
a part of town that I really miss.
?
Claude
?
In a message dated 6/20/2009 9:21:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
brucehershen...@gmail.com writes:
In my youth they would still show some classic movies in the falling down Times
Square theaters. I think the admission was like $1.75.
?
I remember once I went to some classic movie, and a scary guy was hanging by
the ticket booth. I gave $2 to the ticket taker, and was handed a quarter back,
and the scary guy said, "Give me the quarter". I just kept walking and he said,
"Give me the quarter or I'll kill you"!
?
I kept walking, and he said, "I am going to wait right here, and whenever you
come out, I will kill you."
?
I went in and watched the movie, and the whole time I kept thinking of that
guy. When it was over I went out, and he was nowhere to be seen.? If that was
the present day, I would give him the quarter!
?
Bruce
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Claude Litton <twoni...@aol.com> wrote:
I have seen them all since I was 17 years old.? I went to college and law
school in New York City and have spent my working life there.?? I have walked
the streets of NYC for over 50 years and have always been thrilled with
everything.? I have been involved with NYC real estate all these years and
still love it.?? I went to NYU in Greenwich Village and my friends and I? used
to peek in at the old burlesque theaters? (before we got kicked out) and got to
the movies in virtually every theater already mentioned in other emails (so I
wont repeat them).? I remember all the old decrepit Times Square theaters
before they cleaned up the area.? The police used to walk 4 abreast because the
area was so dangerous and I am speaking about daylight hours, not just at
night.
?
I remember going to the theaters on 57th street when one of them was an art
theater and the other was showing xxx films.?? I remember Deep Throat and the
Devil In Miss Jones playing for many years as a double bill.? The Paris Theater
showed art films for many, many years before the real estate got too valuable
and getting old movies on VHS destroyed the market for these theaters.
?
My office is at 295 Fifth Avenue across from the Empire State Building and if
anyone is in NYC they are welcome to visit.? I have over 50 movie posters
framed in my office suite including 6 of my Chan 3 sheets.? Joe Bonelli stopped
in last year and we had a great time.? Just email me in advance to make certain
I am in? because I don't work as many hours as I did when I was younger.? I
stopped going to work on Fridays 9 years ago and leave at 2 pm.
?
Claude Litton
?
?
?
?
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ghostsandghoul...@verizon.net writes:
I was lucky enough to be in NYC when HORROR OF DRACULA had just opened at the
Marfair Theater so I got to see the hugh Times Square wrap-around billboard
poster above the theater.? I also got to see the display of the fiends (in a
hugh fish tank) from FIEND WITHOUT A FACE located right in front of the theater
in Times Square.? Anybody else in our group see these fantastic advertising?
displays?????? Larry Springer
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I remember once I went to some classic movie, and a scary guy was hanging by
the ticket booth. I gave $2 to the ticket taker, and was handed a quarter back,
and the scary guy said, "Give me the quarter". I just kept walking and he said,
"Give me the quarter or I'll kill you"!
?
I kept walking, and he said, "I am going to wait right here, and whenever you
come out, I will kill you."
?
I went in and watched the movie, and the whole time I kept thinking of that
guy. When it was over I went out, and he was nowhere to be seen.? If that was
the present day, I would give him the quarter!
?
Bruce
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Claude Litton <twoni...@aol.com> wrote:
I have seen them all since I was 17 years old.? I went to college and law
school in New York City and have spent my working life there.?? I have walked
the streets of NYC for over 50 years and have always been thrilled with
everything.? I have been involved with NYC real estate all these years and
still love it.?? I went to NYU in Greenwich Village and my friends and I? used
to peek in at the old burlesque theaters? (before we got kicked out) and got to
the movies in virtually every theater already mentioned in other emails (so I
wont repeat them).? I remember all the old decrepit Times Square theaters
before they cleaned up the area.? The police used to walk 4 abreast because the
area was so dangerous and I am speaking about daylight hours, not just at
night.
?
I remember going to the theaters on 57th street when one of them was an art
theater and the other was showing xxx films.?? I remember Deep Throat and the
Devil In Miss Jones playing for many years as a double bill.? The Paris Theater
showed art films for many, many years before the real estate got too valuable
and getting old movies on VHS destroyed the market for these theaters.
?
My office is at 295 Fifth Avenue across from the Empire State Building and if
anyone is in NYC they are welcome to visit.? I have over 50 movie posters
framed in my office suite including 6 of my Chan 3 sheets.? Joe Bonelli stopped
in last year and we had a great time.? Just email me in advance to make certain
I am in? because I don't work as many hours as I did when I was younger.? I
stopped going to work on Fridays 9 years ago and leave at 2 pm.
?
Claude Litton
?
?
?
?
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Marfair Theater so I got to see the hugh Times Square wrap-around billboard
poster above the theater.? I also got to see the display of the fiends (in a
hugh fish tank) from FIEND WITHOUT A FACE located right in front of the theater
in Times Square.? Anybody else in our group see these fantastic advertising?
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