Merrick Holiday Twin
1692 Merrick Road,
Merrick,
NY
11566
1692 Merrick Road,
Merrick,
NY
11566
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This strip mall theater was built in the early Sixties as part of the Holiday Shopping Center. It was twinned in the late 1970’s and lasted until around 1988. It played first run films.
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This was in the Holiday Park Shopping Center, approximate address 1692 Merrick Road, Merrick, NY.
I had cousins living in Merrick when I was a kid. I saw CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND at this theater in 1977 and then again three years later for the 1980 SPECIAL EDITION.
One interesting note on this, the manager was murdered on the premises. It seems he was “entertaining” after hours and ……
Hey,Johnny BLOCKBUSTER is about gone now.
If anyone remembers the exact location of the movie theater within the mall, this seems to be one of the rare cases where the google street view allows you to “enter” the mall’s parking lot. The view is currently set across the street from the mall, looking north.
As I recall it was almost immediately to the left as you entered the parking lot. I don’t believe it was the corner retail property, tho.
it was not the corner property,but it was on the left as you entered, way before where the Waldbaums is now. I used to go as a kid , before it was twinned. I recall seeing THEY SHOOT HORSES, DONT THEY? there
Before they twinned it they used to have the movie times on the pylon. I was to meet a friend of mine, who was alway late there, so I told him the picture began 20 minutes earlier than the stated time. When he arrived, on time, because of my fib, he exited the car laughing because he saw the time on the pylon. He said, “You know me”.