The Ridgewood Maroon Vol. 4… No. 10
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
“Bringing us all to a place we don't want to lose."
Observer: What We Leave Behind
Macky’s New York: Thirty-Three Sweep & The Big Old Dirty Broom
William Peay: Tales From The Wood…
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame: Made For & Inspired By RHS Alumni
Project Arrow: Creating An Online Home For RHS Arrow Yearbooks
Mark Porro: A Cup Of Tea On The Commode
M + A NYC: Mighty Are We As One
Our Classmates: 50th Reunion RHS 1974
James Stroker: Hope Coach
Jim Schoneman: Rock Hound
Siobhan Crann Winograd: Around The Village
Kathy & Ross Petras: You’re Saying It Wrong
Ridgewood Library Bolger Heritage Center: Warner Theater
Observer
What We Leave Behind
The Warner Theater in Ridgewood closed this week after 92 years of showing Hollywood First-run movies. The Warner, as it was often referred to, was a central part of last century’s local entertainment culture. Built in 1932 during the Great Depression, it provided many an escape for its theater patrons from Life’s sad realities, whether it was War or social injustice or economic calamity. The Warner stayed true to its original concept, right up until its last performances this past week.
The Warner apparently didn’t change fast enough and became an anacronism. We now like our entertainment when we went it, not at starting times & places we used to phone up Warner to obtain. Who didn’t know the seven digit Warner phone number 444-1234?
I hope the owners make good on their promise to renovate the space. Other towns have made their old theaters into performing arts spaces. The flexibility these type spaces offer are exactly the sort of imaginative ideas the Village’s Central Business District requires. Imagine a live music venue with galleries for local artists, maybe there could even be a space for the RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame.
Macky’s New York
Matthew Cortellesi Photography
January 29, 2023 - Herald Square
Thirty-Three Sweep & The Big Old Dirty Broom
I know...it sounds like a football play but it's just a photo of a big old dirty broom used for cleaning up puddles leaning up against a bike rack - I guess the guy went on break and figured who in their right mind is going to steal a big old dirty broom.
By the way...if anyone needs a big old dirty broom...feel free to DM me.
Shot on 6th Avenue just north of 33rd street looking south with One World Trade Center in distance.
Time 945am
William Peay
Tales From The Wood…
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame
Made For & Inspired By RHS Alumni
Visit the RHS Athletic Hall of Fame
Digital Printing for the RHS Hall of Fame provided by Tim Boucher, RHS 1988
Project Arrow
Creating An Online Home For RHS Arrow Yearbooks
A collaborative effort by Ridgewood High School and the Ridgewood Public Library. The Arrow Yearbooks from 1898 through the 1940s are now online.
Digital archiving by Michael Culver, RHS 2002, and his firm 1Row.com
Mark Porro
A Cup Of Tea On The Commode
Arrived in bookstores everywhere on Mother’s Day, May 14, 2023.
The parent/child role reversal may not have been unique to Mark, but how he dealt with it was. One day, hoping to make Genevieve’s time on the commode a tad more pleasant, he offered her a cup of her favorite beverage. It was a hit, and a cup of tea on the commode became a staple on the morning menu, and the clear choice for the title of this intimate, funny, and heartwarming memoir of how eldercare can be done.
M + A NYC
Mighty Are We As One
M + A is a Lifestyle brand known for handcrafted, ethically made, modern home decor and wearable accessories. Artisanal | Small Batch | Designed in NY
Shop home décor and wearable accessories at www.mplusanyc.com
Our Classmates
RHS Class Of 1974 Reunion
RHS Class of 1974 save the date! We are organizing our 50th Reunion (OMG!) for the weekend of September 20 to 22, 2024. Here is what the Reunion Committee has planned so far:
• Friday, Sept. 20th 6:00 -10:00 p.m….Informal meet-up at MacMurphy’s Irish Pub for those traveling from afar and anybody else who just wants to hang out
• Saturday, Sept. 21st 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m….Tour of Ridgewood High School and lunch in the cafeteria.
• Saturday, Sept. 21st 6:30 – 10:00 p.m….Dinner/dance at the Woman's Club of Ridgewood.
• Sunday, Sept. 22nd 9:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m….Casual send-off breakfast at the Schoolhouse Museum (opposite the cemetery).
If you might conceivably want to attend, please email us at RHS1974Reunion50@gmail.com so we can send you an invitation through RSVPify. No need to commit at this time.
Can you volunteer? We’d love to take advantage of skills that our classmates may have. For example, we still need a professional photographer, a graphic artist, clean-up crew, and people finders. Email us what/how you’d like to contribute at RHS1974Reunion50@gmail.com. This is a grassroots endeavor; our Reunion Committee is composed of 15 RHS ’74 grads. We have not hired AlumniClass or any other third-party to organize our reunion.
James Stroker
Hope Coach
Today at George Washington Middle School Ali and I got a chance to impart some 2024 wisdom on an incredible group of kids leadership matters the culture has been created by principal Jack Leonard Ali expounding on E+R=O and eloquently spoke and displayed how for real your challenges and obstacles can become your opportunities to be your best self. Best day!
Jim Schoneman
Rock Hound
The City of Merrill, and I suppose most of the upper Midwest, has been looking pretty dismal lately. Day after day of damp, gray skies and fog, with no end in sight. Only 4 more months and I’ll be casting popper flies for small mouth bass. Can’t come soon enough.
Siobhan Crann Winograd
Around The Village
Kathy & Ross Petras
You’re Saying It Wrong
Ross & Kathy’s podcast: You're Saying It Wrong is a podcast that looks at what we get wrong—and what we sometimes get right—when it comes to this English language.
Ridgewood Library Bolger Heritage Center
Warner Theater