Juliet I & II
1474 Third Avenue,
New York,
NY
10028
1474 Third Avenue,
New York,
NY
10028
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A small two screen cinema located in the middle of the block on Third Avenue between E. 83rd and E. 84th Streets, on the west side of the Avenue. It opened in 1970 and closed in 1978. It was demolished to make way for – yes – you guessed it – another apartment building.
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I don’t know what you mean about second avenue, bit I can tell you for sure that Juliet/Gemini and Columbia were the same place.
64th and 2nd sounds like a tiny single screener under an apartment building. I recall no twins on second avenue at all. Just wasn’t a busy place except near 86th street where the Orpheum/Cine'. the RKO twin under a department store, and the 86th sdtreet East were. Entrance to the Cine' (balcony of the Orpheum split like Loew’s Stat was) was on 2nd avenue.
So this place was gone by 78? Then it’s not the one I remember. Can’t forget the name, but I remember something with an uninspiring name changing to Gemini, with a little nicer facade and decor. And that place looks NOTHING like the recent pictures of the UA Whateveritis. No one has pictures of the Juliet??
Anyone remember the weird little twin RKO had across from the DW Griffith around the corner from the Baronet/Coronet? Had the opening of THE BOY FRIEND… redone as Manhattan 1&2, ran CRUISING, MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN, POLTERGEIST… same cool window displays as other Rugoff/Cinema 5 houses. For Poltergeist they had a real TV in the window with a little girl figure in front of it -nightgown, hands on screen, static snowy picture… Very strange place, screen very high, downstairs way below the screen, top level was only good place to sit, with eye-level sightlines, a strange little severely slanted “stage” like thing under the screen. You just had to wonder “what were they thinking?” couldn’t have been built this way on purpose.
The UA 64th Street & 2nd Ave Theatre is still open. The theatre in question on this thread is located at 1474 3rd. Avenue which is at 83rd. Street. I was just wondering, was looking at some old subway movie posters earlier and it listed the Juliet Theatre at 3rd. Ave & 83rd Street.
Confusing, huh? I just don’t remember anything on 2nd avenue between the Beekman (and awful Loews New York Twin) and the Cine' on 86th st, except for a tiny single screener that’s still there.
The Juliet 1 & 2 opened in late December 1970 with “The Aristocats” and closed in June 1976.
Exit, you’re mistaken. The Juliet was some 20 blocks north of the Columbia/Gemini/UA. A different theatre entirely.
ABC Southeastern Theatres included more than Flordia.Mr.Lewis.
Actually ABC Southeastern EXCLUDED Florida which had a separate ABC Florida State Theatres subsidiary.
For several years after it closed, the Juliet’s marquee read “A Bo a Hi Do” because the last film that played there was “A Boy and His Dog” with Don Johnson.