Topic: Thomas Lamb
A landmarked Queens movie theater that opened during World War I and became the longest continuously operated theater in the nation will be...
Biography
Lamb was born in Detroit City on September 18, 1896. From the age of 14, he apprenticed himself to a plastic surgeon, doing medical drawings in exchange for anatomy lessons, and worked in a textile design shop. In the evenings he ...
THE RIDGEWOOD Theatre, once the longest continuously operated moviehouse in the country, may have run its final flick.. . The Myrtle Ave. landmark...
This Tuesday, January 12, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission will vote whether to make a Ridgewood landmark an official city landmark. In its early days, it staged Vaudeville, then screened silent films and the first "all-talkie," Lights of New York (1928). The ...
