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SubTitle: at the movies, etc.
Posted by: DAN BLAINE (100.53680@germanynet.de) on 5/20/1997@08:06hrs:
I thought that by going away on vacation, I'd get away from computers for a couple of weeks...but it turns out there's "Cyber" cafes all over Europe, so I might as well close out NOSTRIVIA#9 (at the movies)
1. What Academy Award winning movie was partially filmed of SI? "The Godfather" Where: The wedding party scenes were filmed at the Cambria house on Longfellow Avenue on Emerson Hill. The wedding was filmed at Mt. Loretto. Someone mentioned the toll booth shooting scene as being on SI, but I think that was on Marine Pkwy. in Brooklyn. The catering for the cast and crew was by Demyan's Hofbrau. I don't know who did the wedding cake...but I do agree that Buda bakers had (has?) some great bread and rolls.
2. The most famous SILENT movie? The "Perils of Pauline" gets my vote because they always show clips of it in those documentary films about American Cinema. Thanks to Mr. Beil I have learned that the film was shot at Brady's pond in Grasmere with a special railway line being built as far as Rosebank. The scene that sticks out in my mind is where Pauline is tied to the railroad tracks with the locomotive coming..etc. Anyone know who rescued her? Or for that matter, who played "Pauline"?
3. What movie actor once played for the Stapes? Mike Mazurki is (was?) the actor. Some of his movies were: Blood Alley, Requiem for a Gun- fighter, Some like it Hot, Watch the Birdie. Don't ask me what his voice sounded like, because I doubt if he ever spoke more than two words per film. He always played one of the bad guy's hired hands (be it cowboy or gangster). Pretty sure he wasn't a native Staten Islander or if he played more than one or two games for the Stapes.
4. What did Staten Islanders call Manhattan? Why? Staten Islanders always referred to Manhattan as "the city". ex:"I work in the city", we went shopping in the city". None of us ever considered ourselves to as being part of "the city". It was another world across the harbor...when we worked there, we couldn't wait to get home. If you hustled downtown, maybe you were lucky enough to make the 5 o'clock boat! Most of us dreamed of having a "real" job on SI. (i.e., making enough money to raise a family, buy a house, etc.) A lot of us had to leave SI and go elsewhere to find that "real" job...there just wasn't enough work on SI for us.
5. What did the sound "sh-sh" denote? "Sh-sh" was the call of the
shoeshine men on the ferryboats. As a kid I looked forward to going
to the "city" with my folks dressed up for a show at Radio City Music
Hall and getting my shoes shined by one of the shoeshine men. I think
the going rate was a quarter and my dad used to tip them a dime. Where
these men lived and if they made enough to make ends meet, I have no
idea.