Bombay Theatre
68-25 Fresh Meadow Lane,
Fresh Meadows,
NY
11365
68-25 Fresh Meadow Lane,
Fresh Meadows,
NY
11365
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In the shadows of the Fresh Meadows Theatre lies this little neighborhood movie house, originally known as the Mayfair Theatre. It opened in September 1940. It is currently a venue for Bollywood films.
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It’s a crisis situation here: View link
The following is a link to an article in the Queens Chronicle , and is courtesy of Warren. He comments on the imagein the article: ‘A 1942 photo shows a double feature of “I Wake Up Screaming” & “Swamp Water” on the marquee’.
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Still operating as the Bombay: http://www.phoenixtheatres.com/locbombay.asp
Some recent photos of the Bombay can be found in the second part of this new article about Fresh Meadow Lane: View link
Sorry, tangentially off-topic, but someone asked:
“Quantum Leap” – the restaurant or the health food store are no longer there. They changed hands a few times and was mozying a long until the early 2000s when it changed hands after already being in dire straits. It was all downhill from there. In the restaurant’s place is a Colombian restauranmt named “Tienda Vieja” which is owned by a hard-working couple; they make VERY good food, reasonably-priced.
The health food store lay dormant for a short while until a Kosher spupermarkey moved in (2009?), named “Victoria Supermarket”. You don’t have to be Harry Helmsley to know that a supermarket on Fresh Meadow Lane – an industrial street with no parking – is a bad choice for a supermarket. They closed up shop a couple of business days ago and moved on.
This was a great porno movie house in the 1980s. I met many Hot Older daddies there. I would love to here from any other older men who went there.
The Mayfair’s marquee can be seen just right of center in this 1942 photo. The neighborhood would not undergo further development until after WWII: lunaimaging
This is now called the Phoenix Bombay Theatre, according to this listing in the NY Daily News: nydailynews
Sorry! That might not be correct. Cinema is now part of the Phoenix Big chain, according to this: bigcinemas
I guess that Phoenix Bombay could be correct (ala Loew’s Bombay or RKO Bombay), but Phoenix Big Bombay would be laughable.