Cine Lorraine

does any one know its exact location?

Ponce De Leon ave-stop 15..there is a huge parking lot there now,

Before the Lorraine became a porno house it played major releases and on Wednesdays they had a preview of the next attraction which you could see as a double bill with the current attraction. Its first wide screen was huge, wall to wall, later they had a smaller wide screen. Shane premiered there, The film was shot in the academy ratio but was cropped at the top and bottom for its releas as a wide screeen film at NY's Radio City Music Hall. It looked beautiful on the big wide screen the Lorraine had at the time. It was operated at the time by Jack Odell and Victor Carrady, who later became partners with Cobian and formed Commonwealth Theaters. Carrady went on to form Regency Caribbean, now the biggest circuit in PR, when Wometco bought Commonwealth Andres.

An update of the Cobian - Commonwealth- Wometco -Regency Caribbean and now Caribbean Cinemas the largest Theater Chain working in Puerto Rico and Managed by the son of Mr. Carrady.

The Lorraine is now (2010) a luxury Condo. It was originally named the Liberty, according to parents. Didn't ask why or when renamed. Rahola Photo Shop, slso demolished, lied across it. There's a tasty and cheap criollo BBQ chicken place in front of the inexistent theatre, just waiting to be reappraised.

When the Liberty was remodeled and became a first run house it was renamed the Loraine after the daughter of either Victor Carrady or Jack Odell, who operated the theater. It was an independent theater until Carrady and Odell joined forces with Rafael Ramos Cobián and formed Commonwealth Theaters.