UA Movies at Patchogue 13
600 Sunrise Highway,
Patchogue,
NY
11772
600 Sunrise Highway,
Patchogue,
NY
11772
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I didn’t take the projection room photos or videos, so I cannot vouch. I did however take the interiors of the ticket counter, concesion counter, and the arcade. Yes, that is actually my and my mom sitting in the theater. Wish I remembered which number that was in.
while the photos posted by LI Oddities are definately UA Patchogue, the videos are definately NOT! That projectionist never worked there and Patchogue had Century projectors, not Christies.
As I said many times above….one thing I had to say about the Patchogue is it had GREAT popcorn!! I agree, the Island16 is overpriced.
Your welcome. My wife and I had been going there for years. The employees were top notch, the management was awesome. When we heard it was closing we aked them if we could take some pictures and they all hinted they would look the other way. Good thing. All my favorite theaters are gone. Island16 is no replacement. The employees are nasty, its expensive, the popcorn tastes days old and stale. I hate Island16!
Sad….thanks for the photos. I am really going to miss the place.
There is a bunch of photos on my message board of this theater. View link
Included is a photo journey of a trip I took there in April 2007 with my wife and mother.
Someone posted pics and videos of the projection rooms as well.
Only visited it once, to see Ray in Dec. 04, since it was the only LI theater playing it @ a convenient time for me…sorry to see it go (and didn’t even know it had closed!), looked like they kept a good bit of the mid-80s ambience. RIP, Patchogue 13. :–(
Oh, and great essay, Bob…sorry you had to lose it twice, but I can def say it was worth the extra effort!
Thanks, but where will the Tanger Outlet be?
GOOD MOVE UARULES..WHERE ARE YOU?
Tanger outlet center
Where on Deer Park Ave will that be?
There were not many staff members left (many went to college and were not replaced for obvious reasons) but almost all have transfered to Ronkonkoma, with the exception of 2 associate managers, who have transferred to other locations. All the long-timers will be at REGAL Ronkonkoma.
Last word on Deer Park was a May ‘08 opening.
did any of the staff move to ronkonkoma?
it’s regal/ua right?
when will deer park break ground?
Patchogue was open 365 days a year.. there was no such thing as holidays.Both matinees and evenings. Ronkonkoma is picking up the matinees now.
Question: Was Patchogue open during the day on non-school holidays or just at night?
evil…evil people
well, last night someone set the dumpster on fire.. now it is all forever destroyed.
very very sad…
MY guess is what didn’t make it to the dumpster was dumped on
other UA theatres….
this fall on CBS….CSI PATCHOUGUE 13…CHECK THE DUMPSTER FOR
D N A U A…
MY guess is what didn’t make it to the dumpster was dumped on
other UA theatres….
this fall on CBS….CSI PATCHOUGUE 13…CHECK THE DUMPSTER FOR
D N A U A…
thank you! not a bad line-up. (and now its here for posterity).
thanks.
i could kick myself for not visiting in its last days. i read in that rag Newsday it would be closed in May. when it continued through the summer i thought ‘ah, must have been reprieved by the governor.’
i could write much about ‘big brother’ and corporate America but i’ll spare you. suffice to say that if i ever write a book on how to run a business into the ground, i have much material just from my own former company.
when i was a kid, i used to pass the dumpster by the Jerry Lewis Cinema in Ronkonkoma (now OTB) and rescue pieces of 35 mm film from the trashman. they’d just be laying on the top.
i had frames from Cabaret, The New Centurions, a few others. i suppose some collector somewhere would pay some pittance for them but who cares. i grabbed them for the inspiration they gave me (to write, to dream of directing my own films).
a friend of mine was passing Metromedia (tv channel 5) when they had a 2 yard dumpster behind the building. He found an old camera (that MIGHT have been one of three used to shoot The Honeymooner’s). Another friend found old kinescopes of Chuck McAnn, Sandy Becker, etc. Seinfeld’s first appearance on tv. No one had heard of DVD’s or realized the collecting market potential out there. One man’s dross is another’s gold.
Seems like nothing has changed. U/A was created by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin. You think they’d have a better sense of their own history, or an eye toward a future cineaste museum. Ah well.
MY guess is that most of the crap in a dumpster belongs there… :)
the movies playing on the last day were:
SIMPSONS
HAIR SPRAY
CHUCK AND LARRY
BALLS OF FURY
RUSH HOUR 3
MR BEAN
TRANSFORMERS
BOURNE 3
SUPERBAD
BECOMING JANE
NANNY DIARIES
NO RESERVATIONS
HALLOWEEN
Your kinds words of support are heartfelt and greatly appreciated. However, “Big Brother” also knows about “CT” and monitors this board.
FYI- going onto the property and into the dumpsters is trespassing. The police have been contacted to arrest anyone who does.
i will , thanks. the staff seemed not unaware of the value of some of the history. pretty wild. i keep meaning to check out what was playing the LAST day. i see from an old advert someone posted that it had its grand opening with The Sons Of Katie Elder!
shamas shamas el ma kababis. for 75 dollars these days, you couldn’t even find room in that dumpster let alone a studio apartment with Charles Boyer upstairs!
the interplay between an angry Paul (Redford) and the phone repairman (Herb Edelman) always makes me laugh..
-i said, do you want a drink?
-who?
-you.
-me?
-yeah.
-no.
-right!
was just over here, on the east side of the building, there are 2 dumpsters full of movie history… reels, ticket stubs sorted in bags by date. . projection manuals, seat and soundsystem catalogues… bank deposit slips, and not just in relation to this theatre, e. meadow as well, hamptons etc… .
check it out if interested.