Century's Plainview
337A South Oyster Bay,
Plainview,
NY
11803
337A South Oyster Bay,
Plainview,
NY
11803
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The Plainview, a Century Theater, was built in the ‘50s and closed a couple of decades later. It was retrofitted into an office building.
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“Who said Plainview is a village? The mention of Clearview Village related to a development that is located off of South Oyster Bay Road."
posted by hkbf232 on Oct 17, 2007 at 5:59am
Below is the posting mentioning Plainview as a village, which Plainview is not
“Of one thing I am sure, Century’s Plainview theatre was located in the village of Plainview which is in the Town of Oyster Bay"
posted by vito on Oct 25, 2006 at 4:46am
Oh my God, can we please let this go already!
The theatre is dead, gone, finito.
For heavens sake can we please give where it was located a rest.
Everytime I see a post has been made here I look forward to reading it, only to find out it is just another where was it located post.
I loved working there and missed it dearly, To anyone reading this who may have workd the house the same time I did during the 70s,
I miss you guys as well. Especialy the head usher who always made sure i had fresh coffee and tricked me into thinking we were going to start to play all the Fox product exclusively.
That would have been me Vito. I was Chief of Service. Lets not forget the donuts from Dunkin Donuts next door. I don’t remember to Fox product trick. Bob L.
The opening day for the Plainview was Monday, December 23, 1957, according to a brief item in Boxoffice of January 6, 1958.
There was a photo in the June 1960 issue of Boxoffice:
http://tinyurl.com/ycbsm5s
Anyone who worked for the Plainview Theatre,(which by the way was located in Hicksville) there is a Facebook site, named Plainview Movie Theater Group. Check it out. Meet some old friends. Bob L.
Century Theaters who built the Plainview was one of the last chains to built large single screen theaters. these were amazing venues to see epic style pictures such as “This is Cinerama”, “how The West was Won”, etc.
No Century Theatre ever played Cinerama.
I remember seeing Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” at this theater, and that scared the hell outta me. Now my dentist is located in this building and THAT scares the hell outta me. (What year did the theater close?)
The Plainview didn’t have a balcony but a stadium rear section. The office complex is quite nice. There are actually three levels off a central atrium.