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THEATERS OF
SOUTHEASTERN
BROOKLYN AND
ROCKAWAY
BEACH
THE LOST MOVIE
THEATERS OF
SOUTHEASTERN
BROOKLYN AND
ROCKAWAY
BEACH
Richard
Grayson
ISBN #
First Edition
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Rugby
The Seaview
The Elm
The Kings
The Sheepshead
The Graham
The Midwood
The Avenue U
On my fortieth birthday, I
tried to get Grandma Ethel to
come with me to the Surfside to
see Boyz N the Hood.
Driving by on Rockaway
Beach Boulevard last summer, I
couldn’t tell it had once been a
movie theater.
MELISSA AND THE GOOD
LEGISLATOR
A Florida obstetrician-
gynecologist and another escort
had been shot to death in
Pensacola earlier that year.
I was doing this because…
well, partly because I had a crush
on the black lesbian who ran the
women’s health resource center,
someone with whom I served on
the board of directors of the
Human Rights Council of North
Central Florida. (At times I am
not a very good homosexual.)
I loved my horse,
Poor horse…
I miss my horse.
Poor horse…
At Planned Parenthood, I
stayed behind in the waiting
room trying to read an episode of
“Can This Marriage Be Saved?” in
McCall’s Magazine while she was
being examined by a handsome
young black gynecologist.
He helped us a lot.
Assemblyman Michaels
sought a sixth term in 1970, but
the Cayuga County Democratic
Committee denied him
renomination and he lost the June
primary in a four-way race.
Rugby
Kings Bay
Midwood
I always thought the Midwood
branch was weird because it
wasn’t on a big avenue but on a
side street, East 16th, alongside
the el near Avenue J. I didn’t go
here often, because it was out of
the way and for some reason this
three-story building creeped me
out.
Something compelled me to
turn up the street and go into the
library. I had never realized the
branch had such a big
auditorium. Looking through the
biographies, I found one of Yukio
Mishima that looked good, but by
1985 I was a Florida resident and
no longer had a Brooklyn Public
Library card.
Flatbush
Canarsie
Clarendon
In an incredible irony, it
turned out that Denise actually
did have this very disease and
was dying, and when she found
out, she figured she could commit
suicide and frame Miles for her
death, so he’d get the electric
chair. But somehow Miles’ sister
April got sent to prison instead.
Eventually Gus confessed that
he’d killed his daughter to end
her suffering.
Grandpa, an unsophisticated
good-hearted farmer played by
Santos Ortega since the show had
been on radio, was on As the
World Turns till I was 25. He even
got married again, to his neighbor
Mrs. Konicki.
I remember him most fondly
comforting a small crying boy,
the illegitimate half-brother of his
great-grandson. My own great-
grandfather was a mean-spirited
millionaire who never liked me,
and I was glad when he died.
When Grandpa Hughes passed
away, I felt a lot worse.
TRUMAN CAPOTE)
I am parked in my mother’s
green 1969 Pontiac Custom S,
with my first girlfriend in the
passenger seat. We have been
steaming up the car windows and
then talking for a while.
In the lobby of my
grandparents’ apartment house
in Rockaway there’s a photo of
him in a warm-up suit tacked to a
bulletin board, with the caption:
“Look who might join us for our
daily jogs on the boardwalk!
Meet in lobby every morning at
8:00 a.m. for some good
exercise!”
I decide not to tell Capote
about this. He seems quite
mellow and smiles at all of us.