Here are the double and triple features that played the Deuce twenty-eight years ago this week. Theaters are listed in east-to-west order.
North Side of the Street
Victory: PLEASE MR. POSTMAN / '11' / NIGHT CALLER
Lyric: THE HOUSE WHERE EVIL DWELLS / THE CHILDREN
Times Square: FROM HELL TO VICTORY / COUNTERFEIT COMMANDOS
Selwyn: WRONG IS RIGHT / NEIGHBORS
South Side of the Street
New Amsterdam: CONAN THE BARBARIAN / SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT
Cine 42
Theater I: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE / MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH
Theater II: HOT DOG KUNG FU / MAD MONKEY KUNG FU / THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING
Harris: ANDY WARHOL’S FRANKENSTEIN / GOLIATHON
Liberty: DR. BUTCHER, M.D. / SLITHIS
Empire: UNBEATABLE DRAGON / THE GODFATHER SQUAD / THE MAN FROM HONG KONG
Anco: DEATH VALLEY / CAVEMAN
I'm curious to know if during the time you were making your movie-going pilgrimages down to 42nd Street were there any specific restaurants /cafes / diners in the same area that you faithfully visited whenever attending a movie?
ReplyDeleteI would have been all over that Dr. Butcher / Slithis double feature. Man, I'd have enjoyed, and been a little bit frightened by, taking that one in.
ReplyDeleteHi Robert -- Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I wish I could say the wait was worth it, but we always just grabbed a couple of hot dogs and a cold drink, many times at the Grand Luncheonette, which was in the outer lobby of the Selwyn. Paul preferred the big Nathan's in Times Square (corner of B'way & 43rd, as I recall) because he had read somewhere that Frank Hennenlotter wrote a lot of BASKET CASE in there. I'm crazy about the papaya joints that are around the city -- Gray's Papaya, Papaya King, Papaya Dog, etc. -- so I'd hit one of those if I could. Fried chicken places were a no-no unless we needed a cold drink or had to get off the street to avoid trouble (I specifically remember us escaping a crack freakout by ducking into Church's), and I never ate anything in Tad's -- nothing in there ever looked edible. The only other place I can give a thumbs-up to is Barking Fish, a tiny stand-up-and-eat hole-in-the-wall which was in the battle zone of 8th Avenue between 42nd & 43rd and served really good southern & Cajun food. It moved further uptown, maybe 46th or 47th Street, and is long gone now.
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