When I moved to Westbury 13 years ago I liked the convenience of the “local” theater. They were never showing anything that interested me to go in UNTIL the 10th anniversary re-release of Star Wars came out which the Westbury theater was showing. I thought this would be a great opportunity for my 7 year old son to be introduced to this great epic. So, he and I went the following friday and went in to purchase our tickets. It was dead in the lobby but I didn’t think much of it. It looked like nothing in it had changed in 50 years (reminded me of the Old RKO theater in Flushing that I loved going to when I was younger). We purchased our tickets and then my son wanted popcorn which need to be popped. The old gentleman said not to worry that for us to go in and he’ll “bring” the popcorn to us. I thought how odd? How will he find me? Anyway I said fine and proceed into the theater to find my seat. Well, now I know how the old man was going to find us, we were the old two people in the theater! It was a bit creepy at first but then I felt like the king in his private old theater with freashly popped pop corn brought to our seats! I have never had service like that since. After the movie ended we proceeded to leave and past the old man at the ticket booth. Well he was obviously a movie buff because we wanted to talk and talk about Star wars! I was thinking, doesn’t he have a theater to run? Finally I just had to cut him off since my son was getting fidgety. This was my one and only visit to the Westbury theater shortly before it closed.
When I moved to Westbury 13 years ago I liked the convenience of the “local” theater. They were never showing anything that interested me to go in UNTIL the 10th anniversary re-release of Star Wars came out which the Westbury theater was showing. I thought this would be a great opportunity for my 7 year old son to be introduced to this great epic. So, he and I went the following friday and went in to purchase our tickets. It was dead in the lobby but I didn’t think much of it. It looked like nothing in it had changed in 50 years (reminded me of the Old RKO theater in Flushing that I loved going to when I was younger). We purchased our tickets and then my son wanted popcorn which need to be popped. The old gentleman said not to worry that for us to go in and he’ll “bring” the popcorn to us. I thought how odd? How will he find me? Anyway I said fine and proceed into the theater to find my seat. Well, now I know how the old man was going to find us, we were the old two people in the theater! It was a bit creepy at first but then I felt like the king in his private old theater with freashly popped pop corn brought to our seats! I have never had service like that since. After the movie ended we proceeded to leave and past the old man at the ticket booth. Well he was obviously a movie buff because we wanted to talk and talk about Star wars! I was thinking, doesn’t he have a theater to run? Finally I just had to cut him off since my son was getting fidgety. This was my one and only visit to the Westbury theater shortly before it closed.