Rob, Go in person to Huntigton Historical on Main St. closer to Huntington Cinema Arts Center on the hill on the northside castle like historic building, you can’t miss it. They are very nice when I did a slide lecture in the historic Red Barn adjacent Cinema Arts entrance. I loved every one of the Century Theatres in Huntington and glad I worked them all (Exc. 110 Drive In and Huntington). In person is always the way to go and call for appointment so that they can have the materials for you to see. You’ll see pics of the Paramount marquee and a few others
not mentioned on this site… and enjoy Huntington Main St. even though it has dramatically changed since the early 1980’s when it had the flavor of a true style Main Street. Try the Mexican restaurant 2 blocks from the Shore.
Showcase Cinemas East Hartford (Redstone) alias National Amusements, it’s all the one and only Sumner Redstones' theatres.
It could not be a victim of the Buckland Hills. A redstome is a redstone is a redstone. Most of his theatre empire is now stone cold demolished. He will join them soon enough.
As of Saturday, October 26, 2019 …. all exterior walls are still standing. It looks like nothing has happened since July 2019 or maybe earlier than that. It’s a biggie… did they run out of money??? Is the coffee shop able to recoup its' demolition and building erection costs… as they said on the TV “Batman” series tune in next month for all the details!
I saw this with my sister “I”, waited on line with several nuns and listened to chanters who where saying… “You’re going to Hell”, “Blasphemy against the church” and other nice Catholic phrases. The pickets lasted a while helping create lines at the box office, it was sold out for days. I don’t know what the big fuss was all about.
In the movie “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (1974-5), when Alice and her son leave Socorro by station wagon they drive by the Sierra Vista Drive In. You can see the screen tower in the distance as the car is driving by it. Since it was filmed in Socorro, it must be the Sierra Vista. When I re-see all the old films on DVD, a theatre usually pops up here and there. Even in new movies, real movie palaces always pop up, never multiplexes (OK maybe some do). In “Hail Caesar!” a few years back the lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre appears for a sneak preview!
I saw a wonderful yiddish musical called “Take Me To The Pitkin” which had a limited run at this theatre in the park. If I find the Playbill program (well-designed) I will get someone to post it here. Thanks CC.
I have the 11 x 14 glossy photos from 20th Century Fox that were in the display case where the long white fluorescent light is under the marquee. I worked for B.S. Moss at the Criterion and the manager was Mr. Mann, not to be confused with the Ted Mann of Mann Theatres.
The Village East can be seen in the new film “The Goldfinch” which it subs as the Bowery Theatre (on the Village East marquee) and some auditorium shots (in the balcony of the original theatre). Don’t blink, both scenes run a mere minute.
The picture isn’t the bomb the critics claim it to be as I don’t read papers until I see the picture. A drama that should be seen unlike half the trash they throw at the screen these days.
Sorry for the mispels, I was running out of time on the computer. …..the Loew’s Pitkin followed suit but still had the once and a while vaudeville acts show here and there.
The Loew’s Kings stopped stage shows before thier 1st Anniversary with an “all the show on the screen policy”, the Loew’s Pitkin followed but still had the occasinal vaudeville acts only once am week or so, but continually every week.
You’re right about that at 63 myself, nee 1956, I spent one morning in the New Penthouse Theatre upstairs not realizing that the year before it was the Strand Theatre before renovations. The movie was “FINIAN’S RAINBOW” on a school trip from Shallow JHS with all the mosic and choral students at the time at 10A.M., we had lunch at the automat next door. Yes it was quite fun for the $1.00 we paid (for the movie). When people tell me to forget the past, I never talk to them again. Those who didn’t live it shouldn’t talk about it … they have absolutely no idea of the time it was. The Cinerama had “Ice Station Zebra” The final roadshow at the Strand was “Camelot” and then the film “The Green Berets”. They did not close during the twinning except for a week before the opening of the new Broadway triplex.
Music by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, the soundtrack album sold better than tickets for the movie. It played at the Paris, then the Brandt’s Astor and lastly the Granada Theatre with a co-feature “The Lawyer” with Barry Newman. Paris is in France and the other two locations are in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
This picture was in the Wall Street Journal last Friday, yet your above post doesn’t comment on that. The picture wouldn’t be here had they not printed it. Thank you Wall Street Journal.
The United Palace, when it shows its' monthly movies uses a brand new red velvet, gold trimmed curtain that closes at the movies end. Showmanship has a faint heartbeat here at least. One of my favorite single screen veue for movies!! is now the last…
with a curtain.
Some time ago, with my Olumpus Stylus camera I filmed the movie ending, house lights dimming then the house lights slowly rising as the the curtains started to close, as the credits came to an end ten seconds later the traveler closed the credits had ended. The last movie I saw was Mary, Queen of Scots this past Christmas. I knew the end was coming when Pavarotti opened and ten days later the theatres' closing was supposed to have happened but didn’t, this false alarm was actually an alert that the final days were coming. Pavarotti didn’t interest me so as you people say, a better film like “Romeo and Juliet” 1968 would have been a better swan song. Sorry to see it go but enjoyed
every moment as I sat and watched every movie for the past three years. I hope the Village East does not close or else I will stop going to the movies. Life is short now and movies stink into the heavens. The last curtained movie theatre has bitten the dust. Shane on the landlord, certainly inhuman and horrible New Yorker.
Auditorium of the Oceana Theatre, the lobby is still there with a free standing box-office and a slopping floor. the floor straightened in the inner lobby and in the auditorium where it sloped downward for the orchestra seatsto the stage.
Rob, Go in person to Huntigton Historical on Main St. closer to Huntington Cinema Arts Center on the hill on the northside castle like historic building, you can’t miss it. They are very nice when I did a slide lecture in the historic Red Barn adjacent Cinema Arts entrance. I loved every one of the Century Theatres in Huntington and glad I worked them all (Exc. 110 Drive In and Huntington). In person is always the way to go and call for appointment so that they can have the materials for you to see. You’ll see pics of the Paramount marquee and a few others not mentioned on this site… and enjoy Huntington Main St. even though it has dramatically changed since the early 1980’s when it had the flavor of a true style Main Street. Try the Mexican restaurant 2 blocks from the Shore.
Showcase Cinemas East Hartford (Redstone) alias National Amusements, it’s all the one and only Sumner Redstones' theatres. It could not be a victim of the Buckland Hills. A redstome is a redstone is a redstone. Most of his theatre empire is now stone cold demolished. He will join them soon enough.
As of Saturday, October 26, 2019 …. all exterior walls are still standing. It looks like nothing has happened since July 2019 or maybe earlier than that. It’s a biggie… did they run out of money??? Is the coffee shop able to recoup its' demolition and building erection costs… as they said on the TV “Batman” series tune in next month for all the details!
That’s “Low-eez” for Brooklyn accented persons of the day.
I saw this with my sister “I”, waited on line with several nuns and listened to chanters who where saying… “You’re going to Hell”, “Blasphemy against the church” and other nice Catholic phrases. The pickets lasted a while helping create lines at the box office, it was sold out for days. I don’t know what the big fuss was all about.
In the movie “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (1974-5), when Alice and her son leave Socorro by station wagon they drive by the Sierra Vista Drive In. You can see the screen tower in the distance as the car is driving by it. Since it was filmed in Socorro, it must be the Sierra Vista. When I re-see all the old films on DVD, a theatre usually pops up here and there. Even in new movies, real movie palaces always pop up, never multiplexes (OK maybe some do). In “Hail Caesar!” a few years back the lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre appears for a sneak preview!
I saw a wonderful yiddish musical called “Take Me To The Pitkin” which had a limited run at this theatre in the park. If I find the Playbill program (well-designed) I will get someone to post it here. Thanks CC.
The base needs a little paint for the upper east siders which AMC can well afford, especially at the Lincoln Square 13.
There also was a Mary Poppins with umbrella pop-up. I had it. Great movie tie-in, it would cause choking in today’s society.
I have the 11 x 14 glossy photos from 20th Century Fox that were in the display case where the long white fluorescent light is under the marquee. I worked for B.S. Moss at the Criterion and the manager was Mr. Mann, not to be confused with the Ted Mann of Mann Theatres.
I loved “Paranoia” and have the poster, for Carroll Baker fans. I saw her at a “Station Six Sahara” screening at the Film Forum.
If I can read it with no glasses, everyone should be able to read it. It is totally legible and a wonderful marker!
The stage apron was dismantled and is no longer there.
The theatre was playing one film about Glenn Gould.
The Village East can be seen in the new film “The Goldfinch” which it subs as the Bowery Theatre (on the Village East marquee) and some auditorium shots (in the balcony of the original theatre). Don’t blink, both scenes run a mere minute. The picture isn’t the bomb the critics claim it to be as I don’t read papers until I see the picture. A drama that should be seen unlike half the trash they throw at the screen these days.
Tick…tock….tick…tock goes the clock.
Sorry for the mispels, I was running out of time on the computer. …..the Loew’s Pitkin followed suit but still had the once and a while vaudeville acts show here and there.
The Loew’s Kings stopped stage shows before thier 1st Anniversary with an “all the show on the screen policy”, the Loew’s Pitkin followed but still had the occasinal vaudeville acts only once am week or so, but continually every week.
You’re right about that at 63 myself, nee 1956, I spent one morning in the New Penthouse Theatre upstairs not realizing that the year before it was the Strand Theatre before renovations. The movie was “FINIAN’S RAINBOW” on a school trip from Shallow JHS with all the mosic and choral students at the time at 10A.M., we had lunch at the automat next door. Yes it was quite fun for the $1.00 we paid (for the movie). When people tell me to forget the past, I never talk to them again. Those who didn’t live it shouldn’t talk about it … they have absolutely no idea of the time it was. The Cinerama had “Ice Station Zebra” The final roadshow at the Strand was “Camelot” and then the film “The Green Berets”. They did not close during the twinning except for a week before the opening of the new Broadway triplex.
Music by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, the soundtrack album sold better than tickets for the movie. It played at the Paris, then the Brandt’s Astor and lastly the Granada Theatre with a co-feature “The Lawyer” with Barry Newman. Paris is in France and the other two locations are in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
This picture was in the Wall Street Journal last Friday, yet your above post doesn’t comment on that. The picture wouldn’t be here had they not printed it. Thank you Wall Street Journal.
The United Palace, when it shows its' monthly movies uses a brand new red velvet, gold trimmed curtain that closes at the movies end. Showmanship has a faint heartbeat here at least. One of my favorite single screen veue for movies!! is now the last… with a curtain.
Some time ago, with my Olumpus Stylus camera I filmed the movie ending, house lights dimming then the house lights slowly rising as the the curtains started to close, as the credits came to an end ten seconds later the traveler closed the credits had ended. The last movie I saw was Mary, Queen of Scots this past Christmas. I knew the end was coming when Pavarotti opened and ten days later the theatres' closing was supposed to have happened but didn’t, this false alarm was actually an alert that the final days were coming. Pavarotti didn’t interest me so as you people say, a better film like “Romeo and Juliet” 1968 would have been a better swan song. Sorry to see it go but enjoyed every moment as I sat and watched every movie for the past three years. I hope the Village East does not close or else I will stop going to the movies. Life is short now and movies stink into the heavens. The last curtained movie theatre has bitten the dust. Shane on the landlord, certainly inhuman and horrible New Yorker.
This is an all new staircase to the right…. not original.
Auditorium of the Oceana Theatre, the lobby is still there with a free standing box-office and a slopping floor. the floor straightened in the inner lobby and in the auditorium where it sloped downward for the orchestra seatsto the stage.