RKO Commack Twin
Veterans Highway,
Commack,
NY
11725
Veterans Highway,
Commack,
NY
11725
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This RKO theater in Suffolk county opened as a twin with seating for 390 in each auditorium. There was a smoked glass wall in the lobby. The ladies rooms all had there own private sinks and mirrors in each stall. The box office numbers were huge for a Long Island theater. The theater was in front of the UA Commack Drive-In.
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And if you scroll down further on the link Lost Memory has accomplished you will see the vandalized remains of the Commack DriveIn pylon now also gone.
More things I remember working at the RKO Twin.
1. The candy, especially the chocolate, always had bugs in them. As kids we really didn’t know about rotating the stock, DUH! They finally started putting celophane wrappers on the box.
2. Jim Ward had a policy of letting Police Officers in for free, as long as they showed their ID’s. Of course some where trying to use PBA Badges for free entry.
3. I was not only an usher, but the guy who mowed the lawn and trimmed the shrubs. Looking back, I did a lousy job.
4. Jim Ward loved the fifties, especially the music, and passed the music onto us.
This has been wonderful hearing about my brother Jim Ward. He left a fantastic record collection. He truly loved his job. He also loved his young employees and friends. It is great to hear the other side of him as a boss. His personality is truly missed. It’s been 5 ½ years sinced he passed, but everyday I think about him. He went on to be Division Manager for Loews theatres until he couldn’t work anymore. He saw how things were changing in the theatre business and was very unhappy about it. I went to the Loews at Stony Brook the other night, it definitely has lost it’s atmosphere of a home town theatre. Thanks for the memories.
Hey does anyone remember Angelo and Jean back in 76 and ‘77?
We had one wild time back then!
A standard RKO Twin snack bar, partitioned so that nobody “crosses the line” . The Commack looked just like this one?
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Not one mention of the Will Rogers donation can collections and film clip before all RKO movies in the 70s and 80s????? Your thoughts……
General Cinema did it too,Bloop,The concessionstand Girls hated walking the aisles for money.
That image is off by couple of miles — how to fix it?
The candy stand did look like this and was modernized around 1980 ,this and the RVC were the 2 busiest out off the RKO Twin format.