South Shore Mall Twin

Hey Mike….I posted a pic I found of Myself, Bill, and the staff from summer of 1986…..Patrick <><

Hello Mike Rogers…..Absolutely….The One and Only Spy Himself….Bill Simon….Prior to Managing the Bayshore, I had the pleasure of managing the Trylon on Queens Blvd…and yes….The Spy lurked among us….LOL…Thats allright….25 years of Law Enforcement now and no internal complaints made….I owe it to Bill….I know he’s still watchin me….Best Wishes my Friend….Patrick <><

Trying to pin point just when this theater closed. I’ve been using New York Magazine listings to do that for some other local theaters. Unfortunately, sometime in 1994, the Magazine apparently stopped listing shows for Long Island. In June 1994, this was showing The Crow and Maverick. By November 1994 the magazine had stopped listing LI theaters.

Is there a way to suggest new info for the overview blurb? The theater was torn down a few years ago to make room for the new Sears building at that end of the mall. Incidentally, I never was in this when it was a single-screen. As a two-screener I can remember seeing Batman here in 1989 and I think I might have alos seen Start Trek III here.

Another one-time Loews to add to my list.

Bay Shore should be two words. That’s why Google won’t map the current address.

I loved this theater when it was a one-screen, but after it was chopped up, it completly lost its attraction. Originally, It wasn’t a very old type of theater, it seemed modern and a fair screen size, and nice seats. It also had a good, deep, multi-channel sound system, which was highlighted when 2001: A Space Odyssey ran there, which I saw a few times at the theater. It was chopped into halves, and we were left with the choice of two shoeboxes. It closed and the lobby turned into a budget clothing shop, I don’t know what it’s function is presently.

The 1966 annual report of Loew’s Theatres has an artist’s rendering of this theatre, which it expected to open the following year.

The caption reads: “Rendering of Loew’s new 1,200 seat theatre in the South Shore Mall of Bayshore, L. I., where Macy’s and J. C. Penney are major neighbors.” It looks like the original name was to be “Loew’s Bayshore”.

This was a great single house in the seventies. Huge screen, they played Paramount and Columbia. Saw “Bugsy Malone”, “The Big Bus”, “Close Encounters”, “Tommy” and “The Godfather” there. I wasn’t old enough to get see The Godfather but my mother who had seen it earlier talked to the manager and he let me see it with my brother by ourselves one quiet Saturday matinee. When they twinned it, they screwed it up. They built a wall right down the middle but the seats on the sides were on an angle to face the big single screen. They never reconfigured the seats and you had to sit at an angle to see the new screen.