Amazing Pictures Of Completely Intact 20's-era Movie Palace In Queens, New York (It's A Church Now)

unbelievable that all this is still there. like a museum. this is where morbz used to watch andy hardy movies when he was a boy.

http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=6288

this is a nice flipside to all the urban destruction porn that is all the rage.

fucking awesome

wow what a place

amazing

loew's had it going on in that era
the 175th street loew's became rev, ike's church, still very much intact (i guess they have rock concerts there now too?)
loew's paradise in the bronx also renowned and being preserved now after they f'ed it up and made it a multiplex in the 70s

aw fuck

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/nyregion/fire-damages-paradise-theater-a-bronx-landmark.html?_r=0

Great link Scott!

Nice counterpoint to this really depressing article from this month's Chicago magazine. It's got a nice write-up from Ebert, but so depressing to see what is(n't) happening to these movie palaces.

har de har, scott -- I am so allergic to young Mickey R that I have never seen an entire Andy Hardy film.

That guy's page mentioned the imminent restoration of the Loews Kings in Brooklyn, and here's what such a theater looks like when it decays for a few decades:

http://gothamist.com/2013/01/24/more_loews_kings_theater.php

I've been to the saved-by-crusaders Loews Jersey a number of times, to see Yo La Tengo and, um, Forbidden Planet:

http://www.loewsjersey.org/historyoftheloews

the stanley theater in jersey city was converted into a jehovah's witness hall in the '80s (i peeked inside there once)

http://www.cardcow.com/images/set386/card01091_fr.jpg

I saw a Wooster Group production of O'Neill's The Hairy Ape in '96 -- Willem Dafoe played the lead -- which was staged in the rafters of the old Selwyn Theater in Times Square, just before it was renovated into a new 42nd St venue. You could feel the ghosts.

http://www.beyondthegildedage.com/2012/09/the-selwyn-theatre.html