Century's 110-Drive-In
288 Broadhollow Road,
Melville,
NY
11747
288 Broadhollow Road,
Melville,
NY
11747
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No problem. I’m just sorry that we can’t find any shots of the Route 110 drive in.
Great photo of Commack. Thanks!
and a photo of the Commack Drive In while still opened:
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Willard Ad at the 110 ! “Tear ‘em UP!” http://snackbar-confidential.blogspot.com/
I can’t believe it either, Rori. The marquee was there when I was still in high school—probably 1978/1979 or so. It was pretty big as I remember…I think in a big curved “mushroom” shape , almost. The big problem with “historical societies” is that they do not deem the 1960’s historical. Rather, they will focus on some old lady walking around a dusty road all decked out in a Little House on the Prairie outfit. Conceptually speaking: it’s an Old Fashioned way of thinking Old Fashioned! But let’s face it, in terms of “today”, 1967 looks like 1951 and I can only ponder the future….will the “children of tomorrow” fondly recall the Multiplexes and wish they had pictures?
Thanks for the really great photos and a walk down memory lane. I am still hoping that a picture of the old marquee will surface. It is hard to believe that there isn’t one floating around.
http://snackbar-confidential.blogspot.com/ I just posted pictures of the flea market from a July 1972 issue of Newsday color magazine section. You can barely see the snack bar in one shot. Please lets all work together and get some full clear pictures of the Route 110 Drive In !
Addendum to above: I believe the 110 Drive-In flea market was gone by 1974, but the Sunrise Drive-In continued on with this. Century’s 110 also has something other drive-ins did NOT have: working (electric) kiddie rides! (Albeit cheap and dinky). They had a mini train, a small carousel, and I remember a tiny “chair-o-plane”. These rides would not thrill a child over the age of 7, but still, very impressive and gave this drive in a great “carnival” atmosphere! So there we have it. The late great Route 110 Drive-In; with not a single photo as evidence that it existed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the best things about this Drive In was around 1971/1972/1973, on Sunday mornings, it was a Flea Market. $9.00 per car/truck/van to set up and sell. $1.00 to get in to buy. This was a pretty big drive in, so imagine about 300 cars/trucks/vans, filling the place—packed with vintage stuff! If you liked flea markets, this was heaven-on-earth. It was liked the biggest garage sale in the world! Many people had the old station wagons, with the tailgates down—selling old stuff out of their cars. (I will be posting photos soon, I have a Newsday color Magazine section with an article on this —SADLY, no pix of the drive in, just the vendors). I believe the Route 110 Drive In sign was up until about 1979(?)(when I was in high school).
The Drive In Moives in Smithtown is on Middle Country Rd, in Nesconset right where the houses are now, It closed before or after Glora in Oct. of 1985 thats when Glora hit Long Island in Sept 27 of 1985. In the mid 1990’s is when the building was still standing in that time is when they started to build the houses there.
The Rocky Point Drive In is were the Golf course place is now.
still looking for a photo of the marquee of this theater. Has anyone seen one?
lol…see what happens when i try to be a wise ass….lol
But Bob was talking about the UA Quartet….
bway ….this was a drive -in no seats……lol…
December 1971 Gone With the Wind at the 110
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Haha, Bob, it’s hard to imagine a theater going from an X movie one week to a G the next! I hope they cleaned the seats in between, haha.
Forgot the link :)
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The 110 played “Gone With the Wind” on it’s 1973 run.
god 85 % of those theaters are gone that are in the ad
Back then Century never played much Paramount pics.
Odd that on it’s first major showcase run the only Century Theatre “The Godfather” opened in was here.
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I guess you could use Proquest, I have looked a lot of things up on there. I have 2 filing cabinets of ads from when I was in the business, and as a kid I also used to cut out the ones for all the movies I saw. I have being photocopying a lot of them and then putting them on disk thats why they don’t look too yellow anymore.
I am still looking for a photo of the marquee of Century 110 movie theater!
Where is the website that you can look them up? I love the ad too!
Here is a perfect example of the family shows the Century’s 110 was known for.
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