tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21554899.post8712200972495691040..comments2024-03-26T04:26:04.911-07:00Comments on Lost City: A Memory of Brooklyn's Happy Hour Movie TheatreBrooks of Sheffieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18297071358029060908noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21554899.post-4886296217620323002014-09-03T18:07:58.079-07:002014-09-03T18:07:58.079-07:00I don't have any photos of the Happy Hour Movi...I don't have any photos of the Happy Hour Movie Theatre, but my sister got to go to it. We live on Colombia St I believe from the 60's to late 70's. We actually lived on Woodhull St first. for a long time then we moved to Columbia St. Woodhull st. is where I have the best memories of my childhood. I believe the house with the two lion heads stairs is still there. Anyway, going back to the theatre, my sister use to tell me that they also use to give out plates to the people as a promotion so they keep coming back for the full set on each visit. I remember the candy store right next to it which sold comics and it was a very small store. My sister use to collect tons of comics from that store. We live in the building you see behind the clock. We were there after the clock did not work. There were mob in the neighborhood right down the block from us. The Galos. Believe it or not this was a very peaceful neighborhood everyone knew each other. One day I actually saw a man running down the street behind a car with a gun. I heard a shot and looked out my window and saw the man running, but that's all I saw because my sister pulled me in. That was the only time that happened. We use to buy Italian Icees right across the street. Cream nut was my favorite. We were the luckiest people ever to grow up with the best Pizza ever made in Brooklyn on Union St. We were also there when the city destroyed the neighborhood with all the digging and construction on Columbia St. I loved those good old days. I was very proud to see my photo of my communion in the window of the neighborhood photo studio there was one on each side of the street. There was a candy store on Woodhull St in the middle of the block we knew it as Josie's she was old and so sweet, her husband's name was caruso he ran a bird coop on top of a building across the street which made olive oil or bottled it, not sure I was a kid. He was always on that roof with those pigeons, they were messenger pigeons. We had the best block parties on Woodhall St. People use to throw money out the window to everyone in the party wrapped in wooden clothes pins. We walked the streets all the way from Red Hook to Congress Park, to Court St. Now that's where I saw Grease in the theatre they had, or have there. More cream nut icees on Court street too. Ok, Ok, too much Info huh? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com