January 30, 1987 –
Woody Allen’s warm remembrance of the Golden Age of Radio, Radio Days opened on this date.
The amusement park young Joe walks by in the film is old Rockaway Playland, located in Rockaway Beach, New York. The park was in its last year of operation when the film was being made in 1987 and was subsequently closed and demolished. After remaining an empty lot for many years, the property, in the late nineties, had been developed with houses built on it. Ironically the Beach 98th train station on the IND A train still holds the name PLAYLAND in its station name.
The Haus of Dcaligari 