Rochdale Cinema
165-02 Baisley Boulevard,
Jamaica,
NY
11434
165-02 Baisley Boulevard,
Jamaica,
NY
11434
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This theater was built as part of the shopping center in Rochdale Village. It played first run it’s whole life, but there may have been a period where it played adult films.
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This was owned by the same person who had the Cross Island Twin in Whitestone.
When did the Rochdale Cinema close?
I think very late 80’s.
On the opening night at the Rochdale Cinema the feature presentation was “Thunderball.”
I know it was still open in the mid 80’s because I saw Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip. It was a fist run movie theatre and was well kept. I believe around 88 or 89 it was turend into a supermarket and I think it is now partially a drug store. I’ll let you know! Also it NEVER became an adult movie venue!
Just drove by today and its become a mini mall, supermarket and a bed and bath store
The Post Office took over the space of the theater.
i grew up in rochadale and used to go to the movies every week 73-78…saw Saturday Night Fever there as well as countless karate and blaxplotation flicks….great times…The theater was actually were you see the “rite Aid” sign in the pic…
I have lived in Rochdale Village my whole life. The movie theater was located in the site where Rite-Aid is now located. It closed in the late 1980s. Rite-Aid took over the spot sometime in the early 1990s. The last film I saw there was one of ‘CONAN’ movies with the now former Governor of California (the one that featured the late basketball great Wilt Chamberlain and Grace Jones).
Contrary to what many have posted here (I know they’re old) Rochdale Village always had, what is called, the big mall on Baisley Blvd. The movie theater, which closed in the 80’s, was part of that mall. The location was taken over by the Rite-Aid drugstore. Adult films were never shown there. The Post Office has it’s own slot on the opposite side of the mall, as does the supermarket.