Comments from Ed Solero

I reorganized my photobucket albums and the links to photos I posted back in February no longer work. Those photos are now located in this Beacon Theater album.

Thanks Lost… I’ll steal those for my album too! That 2nd photo looks like the mezzanine foyer. The photos of the stairwell from both the main foyer and the mezzanine looking down are precisely how I remember the Meadows when it was a twin. The only difference was there was a candy counter under the mezzanine railing (below where those diamond shaped signs are hung). On either side of the counter was the entrance to each auditorium (as the theater had been split evenly down the middle). Up the stairs, you also had two entrances on either side of the mezzanine to the balcony of either auditorium.

Today, the place has been gutted. Only the ticket lobby is more or less the same as it was. The old staircase is gone entirely and is now where theater #1 is located. Where the candy counter was, there are now 7 or 8 steps leading down to a sunken lobby with a large candy counter against the left wall, theaters 2 and 3 off the right and at the rear the big theater 4 (occupying what was the front third or so of the original orchestra seating). The new staircase/escalator leading up to theater’s 5, 6 and 7 (with their own decent sized foyer and candy counter) begins to the left of where the photographer of that 1st 1961 photo was standing.

Here’s my new Polk Theater album where I’ve reorganized the photos I previously posted in September and December. I also have a couple of vintage shots I stole from Warren, which he already posted above.

My new Meadows Theater album includes the photos I had posted here in October plus a couple of recent night shots as well as some vintage views I purloined from Warren’s post above. The old links to my shots no longer work.

Here’s my new Laurelton Theater photo album. I reorganized my photobucket account and the links I previously posted no longer work.

Here is a new link to the recent photos I posted in December. The old links no longer work.

[/url=http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b110/GuanoReturns/Queens%20Movie%20Theaters/Deluxe%20Theater%20Woodside/IMG_0684.jpg]Here’s a new link[/url] to the recent photo I posted in September. The old one no longer works.

Here’s a new link to the photos I posted back in December. The old links no longer work since I reorganized my photobucket account.

I broke the links to photos and images I posted back in September and January when I reorganized my photobucket albums. Here’s a new link to my Boulevard Theater album, where all those images are now stored.

I broke the links to those photos I posted above when I reorganized my photobucket albums. Here’s a new link to the Victory Theater album where the shots may now be found.

Inyoung… I live in the neighborhood closer to Northern Blvd and – like many others on this site – have a fascination (some might say obsession) with old time movie houses. If you read above, you’ll see that the theater was erected sometime in the late 1920’s as a local neighborhood movie house. Looks like it hasn’t operated as such since around 1950 or so. Do you think the church would mind if I went in and snapped a few photos one day just to document what the interior of the building looks like now?

Here’s a new link where the photos I posted on December 6th are now located. I broke all the old links when I reorganized my photobucket site.

The photo links I posted February 12th no longer work. Here’s a new link where those pics may now be found.

Here’s an updated link to my photobucket album where those photos from February are now located. The old links no longer work.