AMC Loews Roosevelt Field 8
630 Old Country Road,
Garden City,
NY
11530
630 Old Country Road,
Garden City,
NY
11530
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I remember seeing “Avatar” and “The Pirates! Band of Misifits” there.
Haven’t been in the area for years but I remember thinking it odd that the theatre had two box offices. Handy in view of all the chopping up.
I can’t imagine why anyone would go to this dump to see a movie. I moved to LI in 1986 when I was 13 and saw many movies there through the mid 90’s. Coming from Brooklyn I was used to local theaters with personality that add to the experience, the only theater that offered that was the US Syosset, certainly not this dump. It may have been a place to see a movie, but it was never a place to enjoy a movie. It may have been nice when it opened as a single screen, but it was never nice when I went and I can’t imagine what’s it’s like now. Outside of the two main screens (which are decent), the rest of the screens are awkwardly placed and rather small. Why go here when there is the UA Westbury 12?
Indeed. On my most recent visit to the theatre (before the blackout), a little old lady was taken aback when she was told that the refreshment stand does not sell coffee. But, for her sake, I’m awfully glad that they don’t!
Too bad the punks tear up this place.
Sorry for not posting sooner. A day or so after my last post, I walked over to the theatre itself. They told me that they had a power failure that weekend, and that’s why they were closed.
Must have reopened at some point in time, Newsday Movie Timetable for today shows nine current movies playing.
Updating my post above: this morning I tried calling the theatre again, and let it ring another solid three minutes, when in desparation, I called her sister theatre, the Roosevelt Raceway Cinema. The young punk who answered, definitely a high-schooler, apatheticly replied “I dunno. I haven’t been there>” You would have thought the closing of the co-owned Field theatre would have been the water-cooler…or rather popcorn-popper…gossip of the day! Your comments and info of the fate of the RF theatre would be most appreciated.
Last night, I passed by the Roosevelt Field theatre and it was completely dark. When I got home, and just now, I phoned the theatre and let it ring a solid three minutes. Anyone knows what’s going on there?
Hi Orlando, are you Charlie Orlando the projectionist??
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This used to be a good multiplex. The last 5 years hasn’t been good to this theater. Always pulling in the wrong crowd. They don’t even post what movies they are showing at the entrance anymore.
No the Meadows is still the original building just redone inside…
you can say the same fo the meadows.
SHORE theater falls under —kind of —as the Century building was demolished and a new theater went in its place..Where i started as an usher…………….
Also the Shore theatre in Huntington
old CENTURY theaters still in use in NY …
Roosevelt field,fantasy,meadows,green acres,
Cineplex odeon finished the expansion long before LOEWS was in the picture
The seating is
1. 424 SDDS(8)/SR
2. 419 dts/SDDS(8)/DS
3. 296 SDDS(8)/SR
4. 219 DS
5. 171 DS
6. 250 DS
7. 183 SDDS(8)/DS
8. 259 SDDS(8)/DS
After Cineplex Odeon took over RKO Century is 1987, Cineplex sold the complex to Loews Theatres. Cineplex Odeon didn’t ran the theatre too long.
Loews had to finish the renovations of 4 plex expansion. The other Century Theatre still ran by AMC is the Fantasy in Rockville Centre
Went here a number of times in the 60s/early 70s when it was a single large house incl. AFTER THE FOX, MAROONED and THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE.
Oh yeah, played hookie one day and my pal and I went to SLEUTH.
Those were the days……..
This AMC Loews Theatres is probally the last of the Century Theatres from the late 1950’s and 1960’s that is still in use. It’s sister theatre (from the Century days), the Loews Cineplex Route 17 Triplex (which had the “RKO Century’s Paramus Theatre” instead of the Cineplex Odeon logo on it’s building to the very end) has been closed since Janunary 12, 2006, and demolished by May of this year.
I worked here from 96 – 2000 it was a loews theatre and did not change until the merge with AMC in 2006. I worked for loews since 1992 and this was a loews theatre the entire time until we merged with cineplex at which time it changed the name to Loews Cineplex (still under loews management ) there was also a time in there during the 90’s maybe around 97 or 98 when we were called Sony ( but sony and loews were sister company’s ) so again all the same management. Loews ( upper ) management did not survive the last merge with AMC in 2006.
Century twinned it and later when they were aquired by RKO, it was made into a quad. Later Cineplex Odeon made it an eight-plex" (RobertR, intro)
A couple of clarifications: During the early-to-mid 1980s, this theater was a triplex. RKO Century then turned it into a quad in ‘85 or '86. By '89 it was expanded again to an eightplex, at which time it was operated by Loews not Cineplex Odeon.
By the time Loews merged with Cineplex Odeon in 1998, this theatre was already a 8-plex.
Here is the updated operating order:
CENTURY
ALMI CENTURY
RKO Century Warner (1981-1987)
Cineplex Odeon (1987-1998)
Loews Cineplex (Still as Cineplex Odeon) (1998-2006)
AMC Loews (Still with Cineplex Odeon or Loews Cineplex logos) (2006-P)
Century twinned it and later when they were aquired by RKO, it was made into a quad. Later Cineplex Odeon made it an eight-plex" (RobertR, intro)
A couple of clarifications: During the early-to-mid 1980s, this theater was a triplex. RKO Century then turned it into a quad in ‘85 or '86. By '89 it was expanded again to an eightplex, at which time it was operated by Loews not Cineplex Odeon.
By the time Loews merged with Cineplex Odeon in 1998, this theatre was already a 8-plex.
Here is the updated operating order:
CENTURY
ALMI CENTURY
RKO Century Warner (1981-1987)
Cineplex Odeon (1987-1998)
Loews Cineplex (Still as Cineplex Odeon) (1998-2006)
AMC Loews (Still with Cineplex Odeon or Loews Cineplex logos) (2006-P)
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