Comments from paktype

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paktype commented about Center Cinemas on Mar 23, 2022 at 8:57 am

I drove by the former theater site this morning, March 23. The mega-theater was never built. Not sure about the apartment complex.

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paktype commented about Manhattan 1 and 2 on Mar 23, 2022 at 8:53 am

I saw “When a Man Loves a Woman”, a romcom starring Andy Garcia and Meg Ryan, with my then-girlfriend (now wife) in 1994. Soon after that, the theater began to show Indian-language films. Now its gone.

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paktype commented about Sunrise Multiplex Cinemas on Jul 31, 2018 at 10:42 am

I saw Return of the Jedi here with my brother in 1983.

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paktype commented about Hillside Theatre on Jan 16, 2018 at 1:46 pm

This neighborhood is very different now.

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paktype commented about Airdome on Jul 1, 2016 at 10:53 am

I have that Vollarno book about the 5 Towns (and I also live in the area). She states that the Cedarhurst Airdrome was demolished to make way for an entrance to a parking lot. Based on the photo (and another one in the book looking down Spruce Street toward the Cedarhurst LIRR station) and the above information, I’m pretty sure the Airdrome was located on the left side of Spruce as you walked from Central Avenue toward the RR station. The parking lot she refers to is the lot for the stores in the small square-shaped mall that now has the CVS, the karate place and some other stores.

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paktype commented about Cinema Kings Highway on Jul 1, 2016 at 10:47 am

Whoever buys it had better have the floors scrubbed REALLY well.

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paktype commented about Cinema Kings Highway - For Sale. on Jul 1, 2016 at 10:46 am

I remember this theater from the 1970’s when I went to school in the area. Can’t believe it hung around for this long.

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paktype commented about Utopia Theater on Jun 3, 2015 at 2:39 pm

I saw Manhattan Murder Mystery at this theater in 1993.

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paktype commented about Century's Prospect Theatre on Jun 3, 2015 at 2:34 pm

I saw the Charles Bronson movie “Ten to Midnight” here in 1983. Wow, was that a violent flick.

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paktype commented about Loew's Paradise Theatre on Jun 3, 2015 at 2:30 pm

My mother raved about this theater. She moved to the Bronx in 1958 and saw many movies there.

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paktype commented about RKO Keith's Theatre on Aug 21, 2013 at 11:23 am

I think I saw a movie here very close to the closing date, but I can’t remember the name.

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paktype commented about Regal UA Midway on Oct 17, 2012 at 3:02 pm

If you’re going to see a movie there today, take the subway if possible. The traffic in that area is terrible and unless you want to put your car into a garage and pay $20, there is very little on-street parking available because of all of the apartment buildings in the neighborhood.

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paktype commented about Fox Kew Gardens Theatre on Oct 17, 2012 at 2:58 pm

Union Turnpike was my home station for many, many years. I had no idea the “Pickman Building” and the adjacent stores were once the site of a movie theater. The above photo is quite shocking to anyone who knows how crazy that intersection is today. The Jackie Robinson Parkway runs directly beneath the intersection now.

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paktype commented about Loews Cineplex Cinema 5 on Oct 17, 2012 at 2:52 pm

fred1: I just did a Google Street View at that address and it seems like it is still an walled-off empty lot. My wife and I saw a movie there in the late ‘90s. It was a real dump and poorly lit outside. Scary place to go at night.

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paktype commented about Main Street Cinemas on Oct 17, 2012 at 2:48 pm

Fred1: I saw a lot of movies here when I was a kid in the 1970’s. They used to run old Disney films here in the summer. I saw “Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo” here as well as “Follow Me, Boys!”, “Gus”, “The Apple Dumpling Gang” and so on. I think I also saw “The Blues Brothers” here about five times in 1980. Haven’t been there in at least 20 years now but whenever I’m on Main Street, it seems very busy.

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paktype commented about Green Acres Cinemas on Oct 17, 2012 at 2:43 pm

I think I saw “Return of the Jedi” here in 1983. I might be wrong about that, it could have been the Sunrise, though.

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paktype commented about RKO Strand Theatre on Oct 17, 2012 at 2:32 pm

Can’t see much today, the facade appears to have been bricked up with cinder blocks. Its a bleak area.

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paktype commented about Central Triplex on Oct 17, 2012 at 2:25 pm

The space is now called the Cedarhurst Center and it is used for retail stores. It was very nice when it first opened in the late 1980s but it is a little run down now.

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paktype commented about Lawrence Theatre on Oct 17, 2012 at 2:23 pm

The theater building was turned into a supermarket about five or six years ago. It failed and the building remains empty today.

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paktype commented about Parsons Quad Theatre on Jul 5, 2012 at 10:49 am

Just to clear up some confusion about “Flushing”. The name “Flushing” was used for many years for several different communities in Queens that bordered the famous “Flushing” community anchored by Northern Boulevard, northern Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue. Kew Gardens Hills always had its own zip code (11367) but its Post Office was always referred to as “Station C – Flushing, New York”. When I was a kid, we always used Flushing in our address even though we lived in KGH. In recent years, Queens communities have stopped using the Flushing name. Station C was renamed “Kew Gardens Hills” a few years back.

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paktype commented about Loew's Valencia Theatre on Jun 25, 2012 at 3:08 pm

I heard that this theater’s patronage suffered with the closing of the Jamaica elevated in the mid 1970’s.

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paktype commented about Trylon Theater on Jun 25, 2012 at 3:06 pm

The last movie I saw here was Fletch in or about 1985.

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paktype commented about Regal UA Midway on Jun 25, 2012 at 3:02 pm

If I recall correctly, the Midway showed the Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnights on Saturday for a number of years, when it was still a quad.

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paktype commented about UA Forest Hills Twin Theatre on Jun 25, 2012 at 3:00 pm

I saw Blade Runner here in 1982. The biggest problem with this theater, as with the Midway, was parking.

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paktype commented about UA Continental 3 on Jun 25, 2012 at 2:59 pm

I remember the Continental as a single-screen theater. I saw Star Wars there with my father in August of 1977.