AMC Loews Fresh Meadows 7
190-02 Horace Harding Boulevard,
Fresh Meadows,
NY
11365
190-02 Horace Harding Boulevard,
Fresh Meadows,
NY
11365
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This large theater, which sits along the Long Island Expressway, began its life on November 23, 1949. It was a giant 2,184-seat suburban movie palace serving a 3,000-family, middle income housing project in Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York.
It was constructed by the firm of Voorhies, Walker, Foley & Smith and was built for Century Theatres which had the automobile in mind when it constructed an adjoining parking lot with space for 1,000 cars.
The theater itself contained an enormous auditorium with a balcony, a large lobby and foyer, and a lounge in the theater’s mezzanine.
The modern opulence of the Meadows, and its late-1940’s stylings, have been lost over the years as the former Century Theatres movie house has slowly morphed into a seven-screen multiplex.
Now operated by AMC Theatres, the ghost of its former operators, Cineplex Odeon, can still be seen in the theater’s marquee.
The AMC Loews Fresh Meadows 7, as it is now known, was located near a five-screen Loews theater on the other side of the Long Island Expressway that recently closed.
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Once again 1963’s “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is being shown here, Sunday May 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM.
I’m sure it isn’t a 35mm presentation. When I saw IAMMMMW a few years back at the Manhasset, it was a disappointing DVD projection. I wish more classics were made available via true digital presentation, if they’re going to do away with actual film projection. DVD resolution on a big screen is just so substandard.
I drove by here last night and the marquee looked like the last days of the old 42nd Street houses. Most of it was burned out and whoever put the titles up did not center anything and there were loads of empty gaps. I have not gone here in a few years but the last time I did it was shabby and run down.
Has anybody noticed how bad the projection system is getting here. When they show the early ads for products or that filler first look stuff shown before the ads the screen verges on badly faded color. It looks like public domain films of the 1950’s that no one cared for or like Kodacolor film over time. Sometimes it’s almost black and white and some other customers are complaining to one another.
They are currently playing an Indian film here “Ra. One” or “Random Access One”. I wonder how the nearby Phoenix / Bombay theater feels about this.
I think this film is in 3D which the Bombay may not have been able to accommodate.
“Ra One” is one of the most expensive Bollywood films ever made, and being booked into many mainstream theatres.
Why does Auburndale appear in the address at the top of the listing page? Fresh Meadows is not part of Auburndale, which is adjacent to Flushing and has a station on the Port Washington line of the LIRR.
The Bombay theater nearby is also playing “Ra One”.
Went there Friday to say Harold and Kumar and they are still only charging $3 extra for 3D as opposed to AMC’s Bay Terrace which is now charging $4, why is this???