Do any DU'ers remember Radio City Music Hall in NYC in the 70's & 80's?

[KoKo]

Did you go to the Movies? Do you remember the Rockettes and the Holiday Music Show? Did you go with parents or were you parents? Was it "GRAND" to you? :-)'s I have fun memories.

[Malva Zebrina]

1. Geez

I think I remember Radio City Music Hall and the Rockettes in the late Forties! I was treated to the show by my great aunt who was my caretaker at the time, and we both enjoyed it a whole lot if I remember right. I was entranced and mesmerized.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Saw Bowie there in '74, my first rock concert!

It was the Diamond Dogs Tour.

[nostamj]

3. 70s and 80s ??? how about the late 50s!???

saw (i believe) Disney's Snow White or Sleeping Beauty (probably the latter) and got the Colorforms for my birthday. (i was 4)(ha! "Colorforms"!! how OLD am I???????????????????????????)

in later years I saw the Christmas Show (taking family!) and, oddly enough, INXS...

:shrug: that's some RANGE anyway!

[KoKo]

4. Yeah........it was "Grand..." wasn't it......

:-)'s

[KoKo]

5. btw, nostamj......thought you were a "20 Something!" ROFL! Really.....

Who knows.....right?

[nostamj]

6. obviously, you missed my pics from DC 10/25

or, do I just come off THAT young???

i'm 48!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. You old man!

I was at RCMH alot in the 60's...it was GRAND...

[KoKo]

9. To me you do....but that just means you sound "with it."

I didn't see your pix, because I don't come down to the Lounge that often. It's good when those of us over 40 can sound like 20 something, as long as it's an itelligent 20 something. Some of them are really "out of it." Ugh! :D

[LuLu550]

11. I went fairly regularly in the late 50s and into the 1960s

I remember how much I loved the bathrooms! They were so beautiful! I'm sure RCMH is why I love Deco so much today.
And we always ate at Horn and Hardart (spelling?) automat where you put a coin into the side of a glass door and could open the door to remove the food (usually a sandwich). And the hot chocolate came out of the mouth of a silver dolphin...I LOVED that place!

[KoKo]

12. I wonder if Horn & Hardart is still there? I'm in NC now, haven't gotten

back to NYC in about 6 years! I remember that too. I hate to think FAO Schwartz is in bankruptcy, that was part of the Radio City treat.....a big walk down 5th Ave. to see all the shops all the way to the Park.

[LuLu550]

14. its been gone a long time

I was crushed and wanted to buy a few of the little doors and of course the chocolate spewing dolphin!

[nostamj]

13. oh............... the 'automat' !!!

oh I DO remember that! my grandmothers (they lived together, but that's another thread!) would take me into the city (from CT) to see the store displays and always.... ALWAYS we did the automat!

(i feel positively pre-historic!)

LOL

[LuLu550]

16. yup, we'd go into the city

do some cave paintings.....kill a mastodont or two.....have a real good time

[Kat45]

8. Yup. On vacation with my mother & my aunt in the early '60s

when I was about 9 or 10 years old. We went to NY for the World's Fair, stayed in a hotel in the city. I was dragged kicking and screaming to the Radio City Music Hall because they wanted to see the Rockettes. The movie was "The Yellow Rolls Royce," which was rated 'for mature audiences only.' I remember thinking that Alain Delon was cute. Although I didn't want to go at the time, now I'm glad that I did.

From that trip, I also remember looking into the window of a club we walked by and seeing a woman dancing with pasties on. I had no idea what that was--and my mother told me to get away from there. LOL

[KoKo]

10. Too funny! 42nd Street before it was "cleaned up!" You must have been

pretty quick to see that gal with the pasties! From my memory you had to get in the door pretty far to "get the view" without paying! Quick kid on your feet, I would say!

[cosmicdot]

15. the first time, was the early 60s - was in NYC for the World's Fair

organ ... rockettes and a movie ... the Sandpiper ...

... and, in the early 70s went there for the Easter show ...

great theatre ... great fun