Belle Harbor Twin
150 Beach 116th Street,
Rockaway Park,
NY
11694
150 Beach 116th Street,
Rockaway Park,
NY
11694
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There is also an image of this theatre on the So. Ozone Park, Park theatre site dated 12/14/2007 and an image of the Belle Harbor Theatre, which is obviously the Park at a later date, incorrectly linked at the New Theatre site. Anybody here with the expertise to replicate these images on this site?
Here is the link to the photo promised above:
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Here is a large photo, viewing Beach 116th Street, taken from the air above the surf, over the boardwalk and up to the Boulevard. The Park Theater is on the right of B.116th St., fourth building up the block. The roof and swiveling windows are clearing shown.
The date is 4 July 1946. Curley’s Hotel, Restaurant and Bar is shown fronting the Boardwalk on the Left. The third building up the street on the left side, with the flat roof, is the new Grand Union Store which introduced the automatic can dispensing shelving system to the Rockaways.
Wow! When I was a teenager in the mid 80’s, we often would stop for lunch at that pizza place….I had NO idea that used to be a theater when we ate there! It finally clicked when Lost Memory posted that link….
In 1986 the building looked like this.
Here is the Park Theater in 1966. It is the same theater as the Belle Harbor. This theater should be listed as the Belle Harbor since that was it’s later name. And screens should be two.
Compare that photo to this photo that Bway previously posted. They look like the same building to me.
This photo shows a Rockaway Park theater that has not yet been listed, as far as I know.
http://tinyurl.com/d9nv3a
No, the Park Theatre in South Ozone Park is not the same theatre as the original Crossbay, which has been converted to retail.
Hey Warren — is/was the Park Theatre in South Ozone the one I knew as the UA Crossbay? It was where Rockaway Boulevard crossed Liberty Avenue (at Crossbay Boulevard).
Which, BTW, is no longer a movie house. It closed a year or two ago.
Its sister theater, UA Crossbay II, is still open, several blocks away.
This photo shows the Park Theatre when it first opened: www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/rockpark.jpg
The photo was previously displayed incorrectly at the listing for the Park Theatre in South Ozone Park. A recent photo of the Park Theatre building can be seen in the new feature about Rockaway Park at www.forgotten-ny.com
Here’s an ad from January, 1936 for the RKO Park Theatre. I don’t know how long the RKO affiliation lasted. The Film Daily Year Book of 1942 does not include the Park among RKO theatres in the New York area. Only the RKO Strand and RKO Columbia are listed for the Rockaways:
www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/rkopark99.jpg
Hi guys,
the photo on Forgotten-ny is NOT the movie theater. The building in that shot is on the west side of 116th and down the block, on the “bay side” of Rockaway Beach Boulevard. The aerial shot from Bway is indeed, the theater. I think in the ‘70s it was called the Belle Harbor Theater. The last movie I remember seeing in there was “The Island at the Top of the Word.” It was a double-feature with a Disney release that ,for the life of me, I just can’t remember. One of the Herbie movies, maybe? I remember that the balcony was condemned and you weren’t supposed to go up there.
BTW, I was born and raised in Rockaway. I miss Playland and the old movie theaters. (There hasn’t been a movie theater in Rockaway since Surfside Cinema closed down, in the early '90s. It opened as a Jerry Lewis Theater around 1970? And when they started showing Rated R movies, lost their franchise.) Oh, and the zip code for the address? 11694
Charles Sandblom was architect of the Park, which is believed to be his first project in the borough of Queens.
From a newspaper called “The Wave” dated March 4, 1954:
“Three movie theaters advertised in the paper that week. The Gem Theater in Far Rockaway was showing "Hondo,” with John Wayne and “Forbidden,” with Tony Curtis and Joanne Dru. The New Theater on Beach 80 Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard (called “The Itch” by those who attended the theater on a regular basis) was showing “The Man Between,” with James Mason and Claire Bloom. Coming attractions included “Tarzan and the Leopard Woman.” The Park Theater on Beach 116 Street was showing “The Eddie Cantor Story” and “Highway Dragnet” with Richard Conte".
Very nice Bway, thanks. That solves the mystery of the Park theater. If the other building on the Forgotten.ny site was a theater, unless someone from the area can identify it, we would need someone to look in their FDYbooks to find a name for it. What does 239-241 look like from Live Local view?
Thank you for identifying the Park! The local.live image is the Park Theater.
But then we have another mystery….
This photo from forgotten.ny, is NOT the same building. it’s narrower, only has two stores, and the stores here are the 239 and 241 Beach 116th St address….
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Thank You!!! that is the Park. My Uncle’s house was the one across the street on 115th. Do remember we are dealing with a facade. There was the main lobby with two wings on both sides. Maybe the picture is one of the wings. Still doesn’t explain the address numbers. Notice on the right of the park in the photo the back of the Park Inn Hotel.
Lost, yes, I mean this building from local.live.com
I cropped it and uploaded so those that are having problems can see it. It’s obviously not the same building as the forgotten.ny. photo’s building:
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Are we talking about the large building with the white roof in the Live Local aerial view? If so, that building is not in the middle of the block. That building is located near the end of the block. Change the original view by clicking on South and you can see its location towards the end of the street where the turn around for the street is located.
Either way, the theater in the local live aerial photo at 150 is NOT the same theater as is in the forgotten NY photo.
Terra server aerial shot of 116th Street shows 150 in the middle of 116th Street.
the address seems to be wrong.
Now I’m confused. :) Okay, NYC records show that a theater was located at 150 Beach 116th St, Rockaway Park, New York 11694. A complaint was filed against this property in 1992.
“VACANT AND OPEN BUILDING (THEATER) POSSIBLE STRUCTURAL STABILITY OF ROOF (S/E SIDE). Category Code: 29 BUILDING – VACANT, OPEN AND UNGUARDED. Comments: BUILDING CLOSED GATES ROLLED DOWN”.
If that is the Park theater, then what former theater is the Forgotten-NY photo showing? In any case, the address above needs to be updated by removing Long Island since this address is in Queens.
Dear Bway,
Sorry about the spelling.
Was excited and rushed to get you the information, The forgotten picture shows stores on the right. this would be where the alley would be. The Park Inn Hotel used this for delivery and parking. In the 40’s massive iron gates were put up to cut out foot traffic
First of all I can’t get the aerial view. On second look. The fforgotten photo can’t be the theater. You have an alley running along the side of he theater. It went passed the back of the Park in hotel to 115th St. Also on second look the forgotten pictur looks more bank like.