Paradise Theatre on the Concourse. I'm sure most of you frequent this theatre. It was such a beautiful theatre. Always full of adults and kids in the 60s and 70s.

The movies were great that period of time.

Cynthia Eaton-Rotkin
addisonst@hotmail.com

Going to the Paradise was always a special day whether you were going on a real date or with your family. I saw some of my favorite movies there. "Love is a many Splendored Thing" is one of them.

Best movie I ever saw at the Paradise was Death Wish. It was amazing when the audience broke into cheers and applause when charles Bronson blew away the first bad guy.

The BIG movie that premired there was the Ten comandments. I do want to go back there when it has a show I think I will like.

Many a Friday night spent there!

I just looked up the event scedule at the Paradise. It was very thin about one event a month. I would hate to see the place die again.

I remember seeing the Three Stooges live. They did an act before one of their movies.

i was there maybe about a month ago to see some boxing matches they redid it very nice only thing missing was the plush carpeting. standing in the lobby i was on a flashback trip of the 60's. saw many movies there. shame they dont have a heavy schedule of events which means it might shut down again soon. hope not

Bronxbob, thank you. So glad you frequent the Paradise Theatre. Too bad the plush carpeting is gone.

Bob Angarola, thanks for the memories.

Mie McWatt, I can share the Friday's night there!

Schwarts, young lady, what is your first name? I am glad you spent special times at the Paradise Theatre. I did!!

dbob, I remember seeing the "Ten Commandments" at the Paradise. It was great!

Flatfoot "Death Wish" -- what a movie. Charles Bronson was the best!

Thanks you,

Cynthia

Mike McWatt, I am sorry I mispelled your first name.

Cynthia

Mike McWatt, correction on the word misspelled.

I remember watching Woody Allen's "Sleeper" at the Paradise,, we watched the movie three times. On the third time round, my friends became rowdy and the ushers threw us out.

Yvonne, Woody Allen's "Sleeper" was great! Three times you saw the movie -- wow!!

I will never forget the one and only time my family went to the movies together. I was 12, my sister was 10, my brother was 5 years old. We went to the Paradise and sat in the top row of the balcony so my brother wouldn't bother anyone. We saw Bob Hope in The Seven Little Foys. I spent most of the time looking at the sky above, I couldn't beleive it. And the lobby and staircases, I had never seen anything like it. I didn't go to the Paradise again until I began dating at 17. It was also a great menory because we did it that one time. So in my mind the Paradise will always be magical.

I was recently at the Loews Jersey City theater and felt like I was in a mini Paradise only to find out it had the same building designer!

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Originally posted by addisonst@hotmail.com:
Mike McWatt, I am sorry I mispelled your first name.

Cynthia

That's quite all right!


Mike

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Originally posted by schwartz:
I was recently at the Loews Jersey City theater and felt like I was in a mini Paradise only to find out it had the same building designer!

This Friday it's showing Alfred Hitch****'s Strangers on a Train with Farley Granger with a personal appearance by Mr. Granger.

On Saturday it's Breakfast at Tiffany's at 3:00 and It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at 7:00

The Paradise was grand in it's day of course I went there as a kid as well as the other theaters in the area. The RKO Fordhan and the Valentine. Mostly went to movies closer to home. On 170th were the Luxor and Zenith. 167th had the Lowes 167th st and the Kent. On 161st was the Earl across from Yankee stadium

Oh the memories! Living only 3 or 4 blocks away from this movie palace made it possible to go there all the time. It was always a thrill to buy your ticket and go inside and behold the sumptuous lobby and staircase. I can't even tell you how many pictures I saw there. It was something else to see the twinkling stars in the ceiling and watch the scenery alongside the theater.

I was wondering if the old Wurlitzer they had there had been restored or was it just forgotten? I think we ought to bring this theater to the attention of Turner Classic Movies or one of the other cable movie channels that seem to fawn over old theaters. The more press it has the better its chances of survival.

I am similar to Helen. I too, would stare at the clouds on the ceiling, this fascinated me so much. I also liked the gold fish in the lobby,, I think some statue of a boy was peeing water into the bowl, I might be wrong. But i did enjoy the clouds, it was so dreamlike.