Surfside Twins
13022 Rockaway Beach Boulevard,
Rockaway Park,
NY
11694
13022 Rockaway Beach Boulevard,
Rockaway Park,
NY
11694
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This twin in Rockaway, Queens has the distinction of being the last operating cinema on the peninsula. It opened in the 1960’s as a twin Jerry Lewis Cinemas.
When the chain failed, the twins became XXX houses. After a number of years, it reopened as the Surfside Twin and showed first-run fare. But sometime in the late-1990’s, it closed.
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As a little kid in the early 1980’s, me and my mom would take the A train out to see our relatives, who at the time lived in the Ocean Village houses at Beach 60th Street/Beach Channel Drive in Arverne-Rockaway Queens. Then when we got there Me, mom and all of the relatives would pile on the bus and go to see a movie at the Surfside Twin.Rockaway at that time still had an amusement park, shortly after crack burst upon the scene,that amusement park closed, the whole peninusla of Rockaway went on downward crime-driven spiral.
The address for the Surfside Twins is 13022 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Queens, NY.
Being the only theatre on the peninsula, I thought this place would have thrived.
From a newspaper called “The Wave” dated August 18, 1981:
“A twin cinema will open this week in Rockaway. The Surfside Theater, on Beach 103 Street and Beach Channel Drive, will open this week with "For Your Eyes Only,” and “The Great Muppet Caper.” The theaters seat 200".
The Surfside was located in a modern strip-mall of stores which still stand.
Still suprises me it closed with ZERO competition