Sunday, May 11, 2008

Jersey City- We CAN have nice things.

Last night, I went to see Blade Runner at the Loew's in Journal Square, which is, if you believe Nancy Sinatra, where her father decided he could be a singer after watching a Bing Crosby performance.   It is an amazing place.  Every surface is marble or velvet or gilded or carved or gilded and carved marble. The lobby is breathtaking... 


The place has had a rough go of it- it was converted into a tri-plex at one point and still bears the scars.  It was about to be knocked down for a parking garage or something before a bunch of concerned citizens started a non-profit to restore it to what it must of looked like in the 30s, when a skinny kid from Hoboken sat in the audience and realized he could be a star.


They're showing King Kong in June.  See you there.

2 comments:

MCA said...

Those are two great old pics.

I remember watching Ghostbusters in the summer of 1984, when the Loew's was a triplex. You had to remember to keep your feet off the floor unless you wanted the mice and rats running over them.

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Colleen said...

awesome. alas, i've never been.