Carnegie Hall Cinema
881 Seventh Avenue,
New York,
NY
10019
881 Seventh Avenue,
New York,
NY
10019
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This was a cute cinema tucked under the famed Carnegie Hall. It had a moderate size cinema and then a screening room size cinema on the lobby level all on the side entrance on Seventh Avenue of the landmark. It showed indie films.
It closed for a while and then reopened under Cineplex Odeon management for a five-to-seven year run and then closed again in the early 90’s. It was gutted and turned into added concert hall space.
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Tinseltoes, those white walls were common in a lot of multiplex jobs during the late ‘70’s and early '80’s. I remember when the multiplex opened on the site of the old Sunrise Drive-In in Valley Stream, I had the same complaint. Movie theater interior walls should be dark, to absorb the light, not painted in such a manner that they reflect light almost as brightly as the screen does!
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not mentioned as yet is that for a short period in the late 70s i believe this theater was a gay porn house.
This was indeed a porn house, gay and straight, for several years in the seventies.
as reiterated by AL A. this theater was most definitely a porn house for a short time in the late 70s. as for the Carnegie Hall Corp. i bet they realized $$$ is $$$.
Usually one can find ads in old issues of the Village Voice for the porn theaters —any been found showing this house?
Nearly 1,000 issues of The Village Voice, which, of course, was and still is a weekly (not daily) publication, can be viewed here: google
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granted posting an old newspaper ad would be proof positive but how about the fact i went there to see a aptly titled porn film(gay)– AMERICAN CREAM.
1972-1973
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25725093@N07/7159529458/in/photostream/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25725093@N07/7159497570/in/photostream/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25725093@N07/7159509116/in/photostream/lightbox/
By mid 1973 both the Carnegie Hall Cinema and the Bleecker St. (same owners) were showing “adult male films” grind.
Al, you sly puss. (Were these hard-core?)
I assume they started as soft core and moved into hard core after DEEP THROAT raised (ahum) the bar.